awards

Join RGV LEAD with a round of applause as we recognize Judith Escamilla, Executive Director for Technology at McAllen Independent School District as the RGV LEAD 2022 Administrator of the Year!

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. [...]

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 [...]

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! [...]

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.

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

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 [...]