{"id":2650,"date":"2017-01-24T10:47:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T17:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2017-02-08T10:53:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:53:21","slug":"pueblo-welcomes-back-mr-alcantara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/pueblo-welcomes-back-mr-alcantara\/","title":{"rendered":"Pueblo Welcomes Back Mr. Alcantara"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Iram Arce<\/p>\n

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Mr. Baltazar Alcantara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A former Pueblo Magnet High School language arts teacher, Mr. Baltazar Alcantara, has once again become a Warrior. \u00a0After eleven years, we welcome him back as our new English Learning Development (ELD) coordinator.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really feel as if I\u2019m back home,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Alcantara explained that one of his primary functions in his new position is job is to ensure that the school is compliant for English Language Learners (ELL’s).<\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal is to make sure that the students can take an equal part in this country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

After leaving Pueblo for more than a decade, Alcantara said that he had brief \u201chomes\u201d at Valencia Middle School and Catalina High School, but he knew that Pueblo truly felt like home the most when he returned.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s [being at Pueblo] almost as if I\u2019m living with cousins,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In the first quarter of this school year, Alcantara said that one of his goals was the build trust relationships with students, and he said that he definitely achieved this goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will work here for as long as there is need,\u201d Alcantara said. \u201cWhat appears to be difficult is always a lot bigger in your mind. You don\u2019t realize that you can actually achieve something so great and awesome until you actually commit to its completion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Iram Arce A former Pueblo Magnet High School language arts teacher, Mr. Baltazar Alcantara, has once again become a Warrior. \u00a0After eleven years, we welcome him back as our new English Learning Development (ELD) coordinator. \u201cI really feel as if I\u2019m back home,\u201d he said. Alcantara explained that one of his primary functions in … Continue reading Pueblo Welcomes Back Mr. Alcantara<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,167,208,244,221],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA2u4-GK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}