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RGV LEAD Board President Receives Prestigious Award

By |2023-02-06T17:28:08-06:00October 30, 2022|NEWS|

Oct 2022 | Vol.4, Iss. 2 RGV LEAD Board President Receives Prestigious Award RGV LEAD continues to be amazed by its energetic, proactive, hands-on, sensational Board of Directors President, Lizzy de la Garza Putegnat! When she isn’t busy working as the Executive Director of Marketing & Public Relations for Titan Fuel, she volunteers her time at RGV LEAD as Board President, TSTC Board of Regents, and on the Board of Directors for the Business Development Fund of Texas, the Children’s Museum of Brownsville, and United Way of Northern Cameron County. She serves as a Student Mentor on the [...]

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Chromebook Winners

By |2023-02-08T11:04:20-06:00January 30, 2022|NEWS|

January 2021 | Vol.3, Iss. 5 Chromebook Winners! Congratulations to the Regional Conference door prize winners! RGV LEAD was ecstatic to give away two Chromebooks to a couple of lucky participants at the annual RGV LEAD Regional Conference! Luis Rodriguez, RGV LEAD Executive Director, gave the online spinning wheel a turn and the winners’ names were drawn. Pictured left displaying the Chromebook she won is Jeanette Lara, Workforce Solutions. Rain or shine, Director Luis Rodriguez is out delivering the RGV LEAD conference prize of a Chromebook to Mr. David Lyons, McAllen ISD Career Technical Education Coordinator. [...]

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RGV LEAD 2021-2022 Teacher of the Year

By |2023-02-08T11:04:48-06:00January 30, 2022|NEWS|

January 2021 | Vol.3, Iss. 5 RGV LEAD 2021-2022 Teacher of the Year Congratulations, Eloy! RGV LEAD thanks you for all you are doing for our students and our community.   Meet Eloy Garza, an outstanding teacher who successfully guides his students in applying course standards and knowledge to real-world problems. His active engagement with business and industry provides his students the opportunity to network with workforce leaders that rein-force critical 21st-century employability skills.  Over the past 2 years while at Weslaco East High School, his impact on Marketing Edu-cation has resulted in partnerships with different businesses from [...]

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Mission CISD Region One School Board of the Year

By |2023-02-08T10:12:03-06:00July 24, 2021|NEWS|

Vol.2, Iss. 11 | July 2021 RGV LEAD Congratulates Region ONe School Board of the Year! Mission CISD Superintendent Dr. Carol G. Perez is ecstatic to announce to the Mission CISD School Board Trustees the news that they have been named Region One Education Service Center's 2021 Board of the Year! She recognized the board for all they do for the students, educators, and parents. She closed by saying, “Iron sharpens iron and the best is yet to come!” Congratulations Mission CISD School Board, Region One School Board of the Year! [...]

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Jubilee Academy Becomes RGV LEAD Member

By |2023-02-08T10:17:26-06:00May 25, 2021|NEWS|

Vol.2, Iss. 9 | May 2021 Jubilee Academy Becomes RGV LEAD Member Pictured above: The RGV LEAD staff meeting with Jubilee Academy CCMR Coordinator Bernardo Garrido (top right) and Jamie Molina, Jubilee District Career & Technical Education Coordinator. (bottom center) RGV LEAD looks forward to offering its services to the charter school which was founded in 2000. Jubilee Academy is located in several Texas cities, including Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, Kingsville, and Brownsville.

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RGV LEAD Partner, ST-CTAT, Presents Annual Community Award to Haziel Lopez

By |2023-02-08T10:19:23-06:00May 14, 2021|NEWS|

Vol.2, Iss. 9 | May 2021 RGV LEAD Partner, ST-CTAT, Presents Annual Community Award to Haziel Lopez

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Norma Salazar Shares Her Story

By |2023-02-06T17:16:36-06:00April 15, 2021|NEWS|

Vol. 2, Iss. 8 | April 2021 Norma Salazar Shares Her Story The African proverb: “It takes a village to raise a child ” couldn’t be truer – nobody truly succeeds on their own without others impacting their lives in some way. ~ Norma Higher Education Educator of the Year WHEN I HEARD our keynote speaker at the RGV LEAD Conference, Mr. David Leal talk about his former teacher, Mr. Reyna, from Brown Middle School in McAllen, it took me back to a story I recount every Christmas about Mr. Reyna, who also happened to be my [...]

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RGV LEAD Participates in JET Grant Presentation

By |2023-02-08T10:22:50-06:00April 6, 2021|NEWS|

Vol. 2, Iss. 8 | April 2021 RGV LEAD Participates in Jobs and Education for Texas (JET) Grant Presentation Jobs & Education for Texans (JET) Grant Program Congratulations to all RGV LEAD partners and Julian Alvarez, Texas Workforce Commission and former RGV LEAD Board member, for being here to present 11 local school districts 2.6 million in Jobs & Education for Texans (JET) Grants. The JET program provides grants to eligible educational institutions to defray the start-up costs associated with developing career and technical education programs. JET grants provide potential economic returns through supporting new, emerging industries [...]

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