TEACHER DON LEIBOLD Don Leibold is an English teacher at Loyola Academy in Milwaukee, WI. He earned a BS from the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and he is a veteran of the Greater Houston Area Writing Project. The teachers at Deady Middle School in Houston voted him Teacher of the Year in 1999. Another Houston highlight is his time volunteering at Holocaust Museum Houston as a library assistant. In 1999, he attended the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators.   SCHOOL Loyola Academy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Loyola Academy operates in partnership with the Milwaukee Public Schools Division of Small Community Schools. It provides services to 90 at-risk students in grades nine through twelve. The vast majority of the students are of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent. The rest of the students are of African, European, Hmong, Laotian, and Vietnamese descent. In 2002, Loyola Academy’s principal, Bobbi Lipeles, was named one of Milwaukee’s 50 most influential people by Milwaukee Magazine. Community demographic information: Milwaukee, WI City population: 596,974 Total minority population: 325,985 (55% of city’s pop.) Asian: 17,571 (2.9% of city’s pop.) Black: 222,933 (37% of city’s pop.) Hispanic: 71646 (12% of city’s pop.) The biggest concentration of Hispanic people is on Milwaukee’s near south side, where Loyola is located. Milwaukee County’s population: 940,164 Source: Census 2000 information on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Web site, http://www.jsonline.com/news/census2000/ [Close]