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UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed.Last night's fortune cookie said, "Don't pursue happiness—create it."How timely. My friends and I are stressing out about charter school lotteries, as discussed in yesterday's post. We are making backup plans and talking about our...
"I try not to dwell on it," I said. "Yes, that's probably for the best, don't dwell on it." That's a conversation I had before the holidays, when I was visiting with a Great Hearts Texas staff member, and I mentioned feeling stressed about the Great Hearts lottery....
It's a busy time of year for parents who are researching school choice options. So, here is the January 8 edition of the San Antonio Charter Moms 2014-15 Guide to informational meetings, application deadlines, and lotteries. Check back again soon for updates. January...
Last month, the Children's Hospital of San Antonio (CHofSA, formerly Christus Santa Rosa Children's Hospital) hosted a group of mom bloggers (including my son and me) for lunch to meet with hospital leaders and talk about the transformation that is underway to create...
The Eleanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy (EKHLA) opened last year, in August 2013, as a public open-enrollment charter school for grades K-8 offering Hebrew language instruction; read more in this earlier post. How time flies! EKHLA is getting ready to take...
Start your year off right by picking up some positive energy from KIPP: San Antonio. The next First Friday Breakfast will be at KIPP Aspire Academy, 731 Fredericksburg Rd., San Antonio, Texas 78201 (map) from 7:45 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. on January 10, 2013. RSVP...
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog was viewed about 64,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Madison Square Garden, it would...
It's been an eventful year for the charter school community in San Antonio. Here are my favorite photo galleries from 2013: "[Gallery] KIPP San Antonio 1st Annual March to College on November 1, 2013", Inga Cotton, San Antonio Charter Moms, November 4, 2013. "IDEA...
As Piglet says in Winnie the Pooh, "It's so much more friendly with two." Likewise, guest blogging builds relationships, grows audiences, stimulates ideas, and is just so much friendlier. In 2013, I published one post from a young guest blogger, and contributed...
Several of my most popular posts have a common theme: Location, location, location. Here are some of my favorite location-themed posts: "BASIS San Antonio location: Floyd Curl Drive and Hamilton Wolfe Road in the Medical Center area", Inga Cotton, San Antonio Charter...
Yesterday, I grabbed my kids, our friends and their out-of-town relative, and my pocket camera, and set out to enjoy the holiday lights along the San Antonio Riverwalk. Go be a tourist in your own city and enjoy this unique San Antonio experience. In the late...
First of all: Grab your calendar, find April 5, 2014, and mark down the San Antonio Book Festival. It will be here before you know it. Next, ask yourself: Do I know any promising young writers who are currently in grades 9 to 12? If so, please suggest that they enter...