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Over the weekend, the San Antonio Zoo invited a group of blogger families, including my kids and me, to decorate pumpkins for the Pumpkin Bash on Friday, October 25, 2013. We enjoyed an early Halloween party, met Thistle the hedgehog, and got goodie bags, including...

UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed. "My mom wanted me to have the ability to find something beautiful." —Akiko Fujimoto, Associate Conductor, San Antonio Symphony Remember my earlier post about my birthday date night at the San Antonio Symphony? I also mentioned the...

Mayor Juilán Castro is in Denver today for the launch of the Mayors for Educational Excellence Tour (MEET), a partnership among the mayors of four major U.S. cities to highlight the educational innovations that are working in their respective cities. The tour includes...

BASIS San Antonio opened this fall, joining BASIS charter schools in Arizona and Washington, D.C.; read more in this earlier post about the dedication ceremony. Now BASIS is expanding in a different direction, opening independent schools in New York and...

This month, I am contributing to the Gifted Homeschoolers Forum Blog Hop on "Homeschooling a gifted/2e kid."   This is a blog about charter schools . . . so why am I writing a post about homeschooling? Life is full of surprises. A couple of years ago, we moved to a...

The other day, I walked up to the Overlook at the San Antonio Botanical Garden to stretch my legs and enjoy the view. Of course, since I have charter schools on the brain, I looked see how many campuses I could identify. In the photo, I've marked the Tower of the...

UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed. Would you let your two-year-old chop mushrooms for making pizza? Montessori educator Sara Cotner does. "Montessori Moments: 2 years and 3 months", Sara Cotner, Feeding the Soil, June 3, 2013. It's one of the ways she implements...

The Henry Ford Academy: Alameda School for Art + Design has reached its goal of moving into the Alameda Theater complex. "Charter school moves into iconic downtown building", Maria Luisa Cesar, San Antonio Express-News, October 8, 2013 (subscribers only); "Alameda...

Last night, for a birthday treat, my husband took me to dinner at my favorite steakhouse on Houston Street, and then we walked across the street and enjoyed a San Antonio Symphony concert at the Majestic Theatre. The program, featuring Mussorgsky and a Saint-Saëns...

According to an email that went out this afternoon, Great Hearts Texas and Temple Beth-El have agreed to a multi-year lease to allow the charter school to establish its first San Antonio campus at the temple, which is located at 211 Belknap Place in Monte Vista (map)....