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Logo Contest for 2012 Technology Conference
Region One ESC Technology Conference Planning Committee is accepting submissions for a Technology Conference 2012 logo from K-12 students in Region One ESC schools only.
A student wishing to submit a logo, must submit the logo as an attachment by email with the following information:
- Student Name
- School District Name
- Campus Name
- Grade Level
This year"s theme will be "Hollywood". Logo submission deadline is Tuesday, January 31, 2012.
The Planning Committee will select a logo from the submissions received, and all logo creators will be notified after the winner is selected.
The winning logo will become the property of Region One Education Service Center and will be used on all conference materials - website, registration booklet, program, shirts, tote bags, posters, etc.
The creator of the selected logo will receive credit for the logo, a conference shirt, a conference bag and a Kindle Fire.
The 2012 Technology Conference logo contest guidelines are now posted on the Region One ESC website at:
http://www.esc1.net/129310101014405833/blank/browse.asp?a=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&c=56059&129310101014405833Nav=|&NodeID=1853
Martin Luther King, Jr Day - January 16
Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father served from then until his death in 1960 where Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Black institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.
In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. In December, 1955, he led the first great Black nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Blacks and whites rode the buses as equals. During the boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Black leader of the first rank.
In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. During those years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Black revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Black voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream" (http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=20916), he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested more than twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.
At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to further the civil rights movement.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
Nobel Lectures, Peace 1951-1970, Editor Frederick W. Haberman, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972
Winter Masquerade Dance
Houston Elementary Students celebrate a Winter Masquerade Dance on Friday, December 9, 2011. All of these students sold at least one box of chocolate during the fundraiser. The Princesses, Princes, Queens and Kings were named during this celebration.
PK – Abigail Gomez (Princess) 3rd Grade – Cristina Alvarez (Princess)
Kinder – Govanny Mancinas (Prince) 5th Grade – Jorge Soto (Prince)
Jennifer Benavides (Princess)
1st Grade – Luis Martinez (Prince) King – Alan Islas (5th Grade)
2nd Grade – Jose Luis Garcia (Prince)
Jacklyn Pedraza (Princess)
King – Jacob Escamilla (Kinder)
Queen – Paulina Moreno (1st Grade)
Lunch with your Child
Beginning on September 30th parents are invited to join their children during their respective lunches. This will occur on Fridays only. Parents are encouraged to arrive on time. Students will only have 30 minutes to eat. Please make sure to explain to your children that you are there to eat lunch and that after lunch is over they must return to their classrooms.
Information Parents Should Know
It is the policy of McAllen I.S.D. not to discriminate on the basis of sex, handicap, race, color or national origin in its educational or career and technology program activities or employment as required by Title IX, Section 504 and Title VI. The district will take steps to insure that lack of English language skills will not be a barrier to admissions or participation in any educational or career and technology programs.
1. Board Policy FB (Local) The District designates the following person to coordinate its efforts to comply with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, as amended:
Name: John Wilde
Position: Director for Student Support Services
Address: 2000 North 23rd Street, McAllen, TX 78501
Telephone: (956) 618-6031
2. Board Policy FB (Local) Reports of discrimination based on disability may be directed to the ADA/Section 504 coordinator. The District designates the following person to coordinate its efforts to comply with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended, which incorporates and expands upon the requirements of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended:
Name: Glenda McClendon
Position: Coordinator of Counseling and Guidance
Address: 2000 North 23rd Street, McAllen, TX 78501
Telephone: (956) 618-6098
3. Board Policy FNG (Legal/Local) (Exhibit) Student Rights and Responsibilities. Student and Parent Complaints/Grievances Procedures
Name: Dr. Mike Barrera
Position: Asst. Superintendent for District Operations
Address: 2000 North 23rd Street, McAllen, TX 78501
Telephone: (956) 688-5445
