Trainee teachers at an American Catholic university are given the chance to hone their skills in poorer areas of the United States, or further afield, which can take them well outside their comfort zones, as three of them recount Each year 180 graduate teachers from the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE), part of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, are sent out to Catholic schools in deprived areas for two years of on-the-job training. The teachers, who are American or Irish, work full-time in schools while continuing their studies online with the university. They spend their summers on campus preparing for their teaching assignments.Catholic schools serve some of the most under-resourced communities in the United States, and Alliance teachers make an essential contribution to th