LSR Ride Pics

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Someone else’s pics from the ride this weekend… http://babylon.homelinux.org/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=lsr2003 lots of work, lots of fun, (not lots of sleep), lots of money for the beneficiaries. -b

Lone Star Ride

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’bout to leave town for the Lone Star Ride. always sleep deprived and working 12 hour days, but the weather looks good, so likely not to difficult to support. back on monday (after a full day of labor then as well). -b

Chron: ACP

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Sept. 23, 2003, 11:32AM

Good press for the ACP program in the Chron’s regional section of the paper.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/thisweek/zone10/news/2114763

Alternative certification draws ‘best teachers’

By BETTY L. MARTIN
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle

Sometimes people don’t know what they want to be when they grow up until they’ve already grown. Then, if they’re lucky, a few find new careers in education were worth the wait.

So it was for Elsa Monsalve, music teacher at Crockett Elementary School, 2112 Crockett; Annette Sanchez-Mena, creator of the robotics program at Hogg Middle School, 1100 Merrill; Robert Pollock, principal at Looscan Elementary, 3800 Robertson; and Cliff Evans, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts orchestra director, 4001 Stanford.

The four are among approximately 800 teachers who have been hired through the Alternative Certification Program

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TV season

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man, last night Gilmore Girls – good, interesting changes, and real Judging Amy – intense, a vertable my-life-sucks-more-than-yours fest then tonight Ed – so, so, West Wing – bam, just when you thought fiction couldn’t get tougher than reality in America. John Goodman, excellent. A million political problems amidst personal tragedy. didn’t even have the … Read more

teaching job update

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last week, monday, i was planning on calling a bunch of schools, but first i checked the web site, and Lee HS was listed.  i called them, the answerer asked around, yes, there’s a math job open, fax your resumé over, i did.  i also applied online. i called friend Jonas, who knows said principal … Read more

crazy weekend

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I wanted to go to the UT v Rice @ Reliant Stadium, but the seats were like $60. (I found later that Reliant paid Rice $2,000,000 to move it there from Rice Stadium – where we usually got end zone seats for $10.  50,000 x $40 will pay that off.) But,… the Austin City Limits … Read more