by sachartermoms | Oct 16, 2013 | Latest News
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...
by sachartermoms | Oct 15, 2013 | Latest News
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...
by sachartermoms | Oct 14, 2013 | Latest News
UPDATE: The Scarecrow Trail has closed.Just in time for Halloween, the San Antonio Botanical Garden has a new exhibit: the Scarecrow Trail. Spread throughout the garden are 22 creations; some are scary (Bevo), some humorous (Elvis), but all are inventive. Read...
by sachartermoms | Oct 14, 2013 | Latest News
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...
by sachartermoms | Oct 12, 2013 | Latest News
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...
by sachartermoms | Oct 9, 2013 | Latest News
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...
