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Board
Chairperson, Roberto Zárate, recently
retired from Northside Independent School District
(NISD) after a 36-year career in education.
His leadership included serving as the principal
at Mary Hull Elementary School for 16 years.
Under Zarate’s guidance, Mary Hull Elementary
has been honored as a Texas Recognized School,
a Commended Title I School, a Texas Blue Ribbon
School and a National Blue Ribbon School. The
school also received the Hispanic Magazine Exemplary
School Award in 1999.
Zárate
previously served as principal at John Glenn
Elementary and as a social studies supervisor
for the NISD. His 36-year career in education
also has included positions as director of curriculum
and staff development for the Edgewood ISD,
an education specialist for the LAU Desegregation
Center, Intercultural Development Research Association,
administrative assistant to the superintendent
for the Edcouch-Elsa ISD and teaching eighth
grade history in the Crystal City ISD. He is
a lifetime member of the Texas and national
PTA, and was recognized by the National Association
of Elementary and Secondary Principals as a
Blue Ribbon Principal. He also received the
Yellow Rose of Texas Outstanding Educator Award.
Zárate
brings considerable experience in community
service to the ACCD. He has served on the board
of directors of the American Heart Association,
the American Red Cross, the Community Guidance
Center, the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center,
the Alamo Area Rape Crisis Center, the Taft
High School Band Boosters, the Harvard Principal's
Center Advisory Board and the city of San Antonio
Commission on Literacy.
Zárate
holds a masters from San Diego State University
in California and a bachelor's from Howard Payne
College in Brownwood, Texas. He and his wife
Jane Ann are the parents of a daughter and three
sons.
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