“Defining what it means to be a model Alum Service Corps (ASC) mentor and teacher is like trying to put a puzzle together without the picture on the box. Each of us brings different gifts and talents to the table, and each of our schools has different needs that we try to fill” (Anthony Re, Alum Service Corps Teacher, Cohort 27). I am Director of the Alum Service Corps, an organization that places volunteers who graduate from Jesuit institutions back into our network of pre-secondary and secondary schools to give back for one year of teaching and mentoring. They do this, out of gratitude. Our ASC communities strive to live simply, grow spiritually, and build community. We are, I believe, counter-cultural. This is a wonderful organization with beautiful people – in fact, with well over 300 alums, 27 years strong. And when I reflect on the type of education we offer students in our six schools – Jesuit education – and as we near the end of another ASC cohort year of service and begin to think ahead to what awaits next year’s cohort of teachers and mentors, I am wonderfully surprised by the wisdom of our ASC teachers and mentors – that their extraordinary lives of service are lived in very ordinary ways but are beautifully illustrative of what even seasoned Ignatian educators perhaps sometimes fail to live. Captured here are some of their reflections, during an ASC year well-lived. May we all strive to live this deeply, care this authentically, and exercise this degree of Ignatian indifference in our lives . . .
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Pete MussoAssistant Principal, Curriculum & Instruction Archives
May 2022
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