I-SWEEEP,The International Sustainable World ( Energy,Engineering and Environment) project,is a groundbreaking competition open to high school students.It is the largest science fair event of its kind world-wide ,organized by Harmony public schools.
This year I-SWEEEP was held from May 8-13th ,2013 in Houston in which 68 countries and 41 US states has participated.Total number of Registered projects were 2305 out of which 393 projects were selected,Total international projects were 182,and projects selected from US were 211.A total of 560 students competed in three categories.
From HSI-Fortworth three students got selected this year .
Yaseem Rana got 3rd(Energy from solar cells) and Humza and Emran's group project (production of Bioethanol from Algae) in Energy Category was recognized as Honorable mention at ISWEEEP 2013.

Deari Friends,
It's Teacher Appreciation Week, and my friends at DonorsChoose.org want to celebrate!
In honor of teachers across the country, donations to DonorsChoose.org classroom projects will be doubled this week! If you know anyone who is passionate about education, please pass this along. Your donation will brighten my students' school year, and you'll get photos and thank yous from our class.
Here's my teacher page where you can donate.
To have your donation matched dollar for dollar, enter the match code TREAT on the payment screen. This awesome match offer lasts through Friday, May 10.

Our students and I greatly appreciate your support.

Dear Parents and students,

HSI Fort Worth summer school aims to help high school students recover their missing credits and to help middle school students who failed any of the core subjects.

Registration for Harmony School of Innovation summer school for both high school and middle school students will begin on April 25th at HSI Fort Worth and end on June 3rd. Students are required to apply for summer school in person with their parents. Summer school is open to all students who are enrolled in Harmony Public Schools Fort Worth cluster.


For more information click here..

Congratulations to the following ten students who will be inducted into the National Honor Society. As paragons of leadership, service, and character, they will be great additions to our chapter. The induction ceremony will take place on Wednesday, May 1st at 6pm. For selection procedures and member responsibilities, please refer to our Chapter Bylaws.

Charleston F.
Emran S.
Gracie H.
Jonathan L.
Madison R.
Milad N.
Naana Q.
Nikki G.
Robert L.
Tony S.



Click here for NHS Chapter Bylaws.

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Dear students and parents,
The 2013 AP Exams will be administered over two weeks in May: May 6 through 10 and May 13 through 17 at Harmony School of Innovation - Fort Worth campus.

Shedule:
May 6, 2013 (Monday) : Chemistry, Environmental Science, Psychology.
May 7, 2013 (Tuesday) : Computer Science A, Spanish Language, Art History
May 8, 2013 (Wednesday) : Calculus AB, Calculus BC.
May 9, 2013 (Thursday) : English Literature and Composition.
May 10, 2013 (Friday) : Eglish Language and Composition, Statistics

Click here for more information and schedule.

Harmony School of Innovation Fort Worth College Guidance Department web site is up now. www.iwillgotocollege.com You can find many of the high school related documents and high school program offerings on this web site.

Dear families and friends,

We would like to let everyone know that we posted a project on Donors Choose to try to get much needed support for portable sound equipment a couple of months ago. So far, there have been a small amount of donations coming in, but not nearly enough to fund the project. We need a portable sound mixer and choir microphones which are compatible to the speakers and microphones that we already own. We spent much time researching the compatible products which are listed on the Donors Choose project page. These items could be used in different locations around our school building, outside, and in locations out in the community when we travel to perform or make presentations with different groups from our school. We need this portable equipment in addition to the permanent sound system that will be installed in our school gymnasium.

During the past several programs, we have had Aaron G. (son of Ms. Graeber, our Special Education teacher) drive in from an hour away and spend hours with us to volunteer running his family's personal mixer board and microphones so that we could get a better quality sound than we get with our equipment alone. Even so, our microphones are only good for solos and individual speakers, as they do not project the sound of a full group in the way that the choir microphones will. We appreciate Aaron bringing in this equipment and spending so much time with us, but in the future it would be nice to have our own equipment to use.

We would like to share this link with our families to see if they have connections to people who can assist in supporting this project. Donors can be any amount, big or small. If this project does not get funded at least five weeks before the end of the school year, or by April 26, we will not be able to get the equipment until at least sometime in the fall. Here is a link to my page with all the information about this project. The project is titled "Hear Our Harmony".

Http://www.donorschoose.org/sbower

The National Honor Society is conducting its annual recruitment drive. Eligible students include sophomores and juniors, possessing a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or greater. Selection is a competitive process, in which candidates are evaluated anonymously by a Faculty Council based on scholarship, leadership, service, and character. The following forty students have made the initial cut based on their GPA and are eligible to apply. Congratulations to each of them!

Harmony School of Innovation - Fort Worth hosted 4th Annual "Harmony Robotics League (HRL)" on March 30, 2013. 20 teams around Texas competed against each other.

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Congratulations to Our High School Boys Track team for taking third place overall in the Spring Break Track meet… Over 16 teams competed in the UIL 1A division. Congratulations.

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Dear Applicants,
The Lottery for 2013-2014 education year has been done on March 28, 2013. All results are posted in the front lobby (Harmony School of Innovation - Fort Worth). Please contact us at (817) 386-5505 or stop by our campus to check your child's status.

Congratulations,
Afeefah won the 2nd Grand Prize for Junior Division Physical Sciences and also won a Broadcom Master's nomination.

Dear Students and Parents,
Final exas will be on last week of May. There is a school day on May 31, 2013

Harmony School of Innovation Fort Worth is now accepting online payments for activities and donations through Google Checkout.

If you do not see the item you want to make payment for, please email hsifortworth@harmonytx.org

Click here to make online payment or donation to Harmony School of Innovation - Fort Worth.

National Association for College Admission Counseling is hosting a college fair with participation of 200 nationwide colleges on April 8, 2013 at Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas Irving, Texas at 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. HSI will provide transportation to those students who would like to go. Please register your name below if you would like to attend the college fair. Registered students can pick up a hard copy permission slip from school office. Permission slips are due April 3rd.

Click here for registration

Harmony School of Innovation - Fort Worth will implement a new Meal Account Balance Policy on March 25, 2013. When a student reaches a negative balance on his/her meal account in excess of $10, that student will no longer be served lunch or breakfast until that balance is cleared. Please make provisions to send a lunch with your child until you are able to take care of his/her account.

Please make a deposit in the form of a credit card payment, check or money order to the school upon receipt of this notification. When paying by check you must include the signer’s driver’s license number and date of birth on the front of the check. Payments for meal accounts can also be done online through your child’s account.

Congratulations to science Olympiad teams. Middle school team got first place and high school team got second place at regional competition. Both teams were qualified to State competition. Good luck teams on May 3rd at State Tournament.

Individual Event Awards:

Mouse Trap: 2nd Place
Reach for the Stars: 2nd Place
Rocks and Minerals: 1st Place
Rotor Egg Drop: 3rd Place
Wildflowers:2nd Place
Experimental Design:2nd Place
Write it/Do It: 2nd Place
Disease Detective: 2nd Place
Heredity: 2nd Place

Experimental Design: 1st Place
Gravity Vehicle: 1st Place
Science Word: 1st Place

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Overall goal of home visiting is to help strengthen relationships between parents and teachers. Home visiting programs are an effective way for teachers to get parents involved in their child's education and to let parents and children know how much they care.
However, home visits are only the beginning. Harmony School of Innovation – Fort Worth embraces the idea of parents as partners and actively involves parents into education.
We experienced immediate benefits of home visiting. As parent and teacher relationships improved, and kids at the home visit campuses began doing better academically and socially. Here are more benefits:
• Strengthened parent/teacher relationships
• Increase in overall student achievement scores
• Decrease in student suspensions
• Increase in student attendance
• Feeling of trust, mutual respect, empowerment, and accountability by parents, students and staff
If you want to request a home visit, please click here

Click here for Campus NCLB Report card

Click here for District NCLB Report card

The Science National Honor Society is sponsoring a Paper Drive on Friday, February 16, to kick off our new recycling program. We have received our Paper Retriever Recycling bin which is located on the main entrance carpool driveway. Please bring your newspapers and other paper and place in the green and yellow bin. Paper only please; no cardboard or garbage. The more paper we collect, the more money our school receives. For more information please contact Ms. Petta at ppetta@harmonytx.org.

Harmony School of Innovation Fort Wort hosted invitational Science Olympiad on January 12, 2013
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Harmony School of Innovation Fort Worth was one of the six venues of Dallas/Ft Worth area to host First Lego League competition selected by the Perot Museum of Nature and Science and HIS hosted one of the biggest STEM( Science, Techonolgy,Engineering,Math) event, FIRST Lego League, at school on December 8, 2012. There were more than 400 people from 29 different public, private and charter schools competed. Our students , parents and teacher made the event wonderful. 29 elementary and middle school teams competed at 4 categories. Robot performance, project, robot design and teamwork. It was a great success for Harmony that the competition ran very smooth.

We would like to thank all volunteer parents, teachers and especially HIGH SCHOOL students for making this event a great success.
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First Annual Harmony School of Innovation - Fort Worth Talent Show.
Harmony School of Innovation had its first talent show on Tuesday November 13th. The show included a variety of acts from singing and dancing to the famous teacher pie in the face contest. Thank you to all volunteers, students, teachers and PTO that helped make the talent show a great success.
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The “Hope For The Cure” walk was very informative as well as fun. The speakers Dr. Robin Skrine and Mrs. Petta shared information on presentation detection and survival of breast cancer. The night ended with 2 healthy laps around the school.
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This past Monday, November 12, 2012, Harmony School of Innovation – Fort Worth held their first annual Veteran’s Day assembly. We were proud to give thanks to our distinguished guests, veterans from the Armed Forces, who joined us for this special event. We were also joined by Congressman-elect Marc Veasey from District 33 and our Superintendent Mr. Bayhan. We give much thanks to them for joining us on such a special occasion.
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On Monday, November 12, 2012, Harmony School of Innovation – Fort Worth held a flag raising ceremony along with our special guests Congressman-elect Marc Veasey and Superintendent Mr. Bayan. Our school color guard, Milad Najafabadi, Rosemarie Kalahiki, Gracie Harrel performed the ceremony, raising the flags on our newly placed flag poles.
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Dear parents, students;

Harmony Innovation College Guidance Department invites you to join resource and discussion group on Edmodo. You will find lots of resources about college admission process, and you will be able to find answers to your questions on discussion board.
Click here to request to join the group.

Nishchal B. is a senior student at Harmony School of Innovation Fort Worth. He has applied to Questbridge National College Match Program. QuestBridge is a powerful platform bridging the nation's brightest, under-served youth and leading institutions of higher education and further opportunities. We are an aggregator of excellence. QuestBridge provides a single, internet-based meeting point which links exceptional students with colleges, scholarship providers, enrichment programs employers, and organizations seeking students who have excelled despite obstacles. By facilitating these exchanges, QuestBridge aims to increase the percentage of talented low-income students attending the nation's best universities and the ranks of national leadership itself.

Nishchal is a FINALIST in QuestBridge now and striving for IVY league colleges. His college list is below.

Congratulations to Nishchal and we hope good luck to him on next step.

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
2. Stanford University
3. California Institute of Technology
4. Princeton University
5. Northwestern University
6. Columbia University
7. University of Pennsylvania
8. Brown University

Harmony School of Innovation - Fort Worth Senior class visited University of Texas at Austin on October 17th, 2012. The trip was consist of a campus tour and information session. Students were given opportunity to see UT campus and learn more about the educational and social programs at college.
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This past Friday, 10/12/2012, the Harmony School of Innovation - Fort Worth student members of the National Honor Society sponsored a blood drive through Carter BloodCare. The turnout was greater than we had anticipated! Carter BloodCare called in extra help to meet the enormous turnout, and even then several people had to be turned away at the conclusion of the drive. Overall, we had 55 people sign up and 45 who were able to donate. A typical turnout is about 25 people. Harmony School of Innovation - Fort Worth, NHS, and Carter BloodCare would like to thank you for your support.

Attention Parents and Student Drivers!
Beginning on Wednesday October 17, 2012 the Fort Worth Police Department will be on campus in the afternoon to ensure that all parking and traffic procedures are followed. Officers will begin issuing citations to those who do not follow the proper pick up procedures and traffic rules! Student Safety is our priority, please make sure that you keep this in mind while driving on and around campus!

Dear Parents and Students:
We have recently updated certain portions of our Student/Parent Handbook (“Handbook”) and Student Code of Conduct (“Code of Conduct”) to reflect recently adopted legal requirements and School policy. The full text of these updates is available here and is also available in hard copy form from the front office at Harmony School of Innovation. Please refer to the full text when reading and relying on your Handbook and/or Code of Conduct.

Click here amendment notice.
Click here amendment food alergy.

Dear Parents,
We are excited to let you know that Harmony School of Innovation Fort Worth are now able to accept Online payments through Google Checkout. You can pay certain items listed on Google Checkout page for your child such as club fees, spirit shirts, PE uniforms, field trips. Click on the link to make an online payment or use the link on the right hand side of the page.

HSI Music Club Meetings for all interested 6-12th grade students and their parents. Instrumental ensemble and Choir Club. For experienced musicians, who already play an instrument, read music and can provide the instrument and for all beginning and experienced singers-soprano, alto, tenor and bass.
For more information, please contact to Mrs. Sheree Bower at sbower@harmonytx.org
Click here for detailed information.

Harmony School of Innovation Fort Worth arranged a trip to Oklahoma University last Saturday for freshmen class students. Students were given a campus tour along with an information session about Oklahoma University. Group also visited Science Museum Oklahoma. It was a fun trip for all participants.
Harmony School of Innovation - Fort Worth College Guidance Department will be organizing more of these trips throughout the year. Click here for more pictures.

Dear Parents,
In our effort to improve communication between parents and school, Harmony School of Innovation- Ft. Worth is implementing a telephone broadcast system that will enable school personnel to notify all households and parents by phone within minutes of an emergency or unplanned event that causes early dismissal, school cancellation or late start. The service may also be used from time-to-time to communicate general announcements or reminders. This service is provided by SchoolReach, a company specializing in school-to-parent communications. Harmony School of Innovation - Fort Worth will continue to report school closings due to snow or weather on local TV stations and will use this system as an overlay to the public announcements.

When used, the service will call all phone numbers in our selected parent contact lists and will deliver a recorded message from a school administrator. The service will deliver the message to both live answer and answering machines. No answers (phones ringing over 40 sec.) and busies will be automatically retried twice in fifteen minute intervals after the initial call.
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Harmony School of Innovation - Fort Worth Fort Worth hosted an admission office representative on Friday, September 14th. She gave information about Drexel University to our seniors and juniors in Harmony School of Innovation - Fort Worth Library. Harmony School of Innovation - Fort Worth College Guidance Department will continue to host College Talk Series throughout the year.

Our middle school students competed in Fort Worth Invitational Cross Country. Beaudry Chase has been placed 2nd and Jervaughn Muriel placed 4th in competition.
Congratulations !!!

The window for GT nominations is now open. If you would like to nominate a student please see the front office or Mrs. Snow in room 120. The nomination forms are due on or before 2/15. Nominations may be done by parents, teachers, or the student.

Parent Nomination Form

Teacher Nomination Form

Harmony School of Innovation will be offering Practice SAT and ACT tests on Saturday, September 8th at 9.30 AM. It’s open to all Juniors and Seniors. Students who are interested in taking the Practice ACT or SAT are required to register online. Click here to register.

Dear Parents,
The window for GT nominations is now open. If you would like to nominate a student please see the front office or Mrs. Snow in room 148. The nomination forms are due on or before 9/21. Nominations may be done by parents, teachers, or the student.
Click here to download a form.

HELP NEEDED AT HSI !

Dear Parents & Students!

We will have our furniture delivery today at 3 PM at HSI. We need help to install desks and chairs in the classrooms.

Please stop by around 3 PM. Bring your screw drivers, drills and all needed tools.

Our address is 8100 S. Hulen St. Fort Worth TX 76123

We need some volunteer HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS at old campus to help us pack up. If you can come and help, please contact Mr. Butunay at nbutunay@harmonytx.org.

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Dear parents/students,
Student orientation will be on August 17th (for Middle School students) & August 18th (for High School Students) at HSA Fort Worth Campus.
Student orientation is mandatory for all (new and returning) students.
Click here for detailed information.

Dear High School Students.
Advanced Placement summer assignments 2012-2013 are available online now. Please click here to download AP summer assignment(s).

Newsweek has announced America's Best High Schools where seven Harmony schools have made into the list.

Harmony Science Academy - Bryan/College Station, Harmony School of Advancement (Houston), Harmony Science Academy Fort Worth, Harmony Science Academy (Houston), Harmony Science Academy El Paso, Harmony Science Academy Dallas, Harmony Science Academy-North Austin are the campuses that made into Newsweek's list.

Newsweek has also identified Top 25 Transformative High Schools in which four Harmony Schools are also featured.

HSA Bryan/College Station, HSA El Paso, HSA Houston, and HSA Dallas became America's 25 transformative schools who did the most with the least resources.

In 2011, two Harmony campuses were also named as the Miracle Schools by Newsweek.

Washington Post has announced its Most Challenging High Schools list of 2012. Four Harmony high schools made the Challenge Index and three of them in the top 100 out of 1900 schools in the list.

The Challenge Index of Washington Post ranks high schools since 1998 based on the student achievement on IB, AP, and college level tests (SAT, ACT, etc.) and graduation rates. The index score is the number of college-level tests given at a school in 2011 divided by the number of graduates that year. Also noted are the percentage of students who come from families that qualify for lunch subsidies (Subs. lunch) and the percentage of graduates who passed at least one college-level test during their high school career, called equity and excellence, (E&E). A (P) next to the school's name denotes a private school.

See the detailed list here.

A segment of the May 13 television news show 60 Minutes included references to Harmony Public Schools (HPS) of Texas that may have left some inaccurate impressions. Please note the following facts about Harmony Public Schools, all of which were shared with 60 Minutes before the show was broadcast: Read more at Harmony Public Schools and 60 Minutes: Setting the Record Straight

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