| GT Nominations |
Nominations for screening for Harmony’s Gifted and Talented program are being accepted now through April 24, 2013. Students K-7 grade can be nominated. The Parent Nomination Forms are available in the front office. Please fill out the GT Parent Nomination Form and return it to the front office. If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Cakan at (713)541-3030 ext. 210 or send your e-mails to mcakan@harmonytx.org.
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| Bilingual /ESL Education Teacher Needed |
Harmony School of Innovation is seeking a full time certified Bilingual/ESL Teacher. Requires Bachelor's in any field or its equivalent w/ valid Texas Teaching Standard Certificate in Bilingual /ESL Education Supplemental with appropriate grade level. For more information and schedule an interview, please contact Verlincia Prince at 713-541-3030.
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| The most commonly-asked questions about AR and AM |
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Dear Parents and Guardians,
Reading is one of the most important skills children will ever learn. The child who reads well-and loves to read-will excel in school and achieve personal growth.
Also Accelerated Math's advanced technology helps provide the essential math practice component of our math curriculum
Your child will be participating in the Accelerated Reader (AR™) program in grades K – 7 at HIS-Houston. Below documents are designed to answer your most commonly-asked questions about AR. If you have additional questions or concerns, please feel free to contact your child's ELA teacher or visit the Accelerated Reader web site.
A Parent's Guide to AR
A parent's_guide_to_accelerated_math
A Parent's Guide to AR Book Finder
A Parent's Guide to AR Home Connect
AR Goal Setting Chart
ScoreDefinitions
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Congrats to HIS Lady Tigers Volleyball Team,
Finished with record of 7-3.
Winning first round of regional beat Texas Serenity 25-14, 24-26 and 15-5.
Reaching 2nd round to regional play-off.
Facing undefeated Harmony of Excellence, who had plenty of experienced players. Outcome with lost and end of great season.
Looking forward to returning all 16 players. All players are currently in 7th and 6th grades.
Go Lady Tigers!
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| HSI-Houston’s Home Library Initiative |
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Dear HSI-Houston families,
On behalf of the staff and administration of Harmony School of Innovation-Houston, I would like to invite you to be a part of an exciting development at our campus.
Continuing our efforts to providing an excellent educational alternative to all families and ensuring that we work as a community to be sure our students have every opportunity to succeed, HIS-Houston will launch its first ever Home Library Initiative! It is our hope that every one of our students has access to age appropriate books at home as a supplement to the instruction they receive at school.
read more . . .
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Dear Parents & Students in 3rd - 7th Grades,
The ELA Department invites you to an Open House night on:
Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 5:30 pm for 3rd - 5th Grades
Thursday. October 4, 2012, 5:30 pm for 6th & 7th Grades
We will start in the cafeteria with information about reading & DEAR time, our balanced literacy curriculum, and the Accelerated Reader (AR) program. We will also share important information about DISTCO, an online storytelling project that is required of all students in 3rd - 7th grades. After the presentation, you can visit our ELA classrooms.
H.S.I. ELA teachers want to help all students grow as readers and writer this year! Please join us to learn what is happening in the classroom and how you can help at home. Hope to see you there!
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| Harmony Public Schools Have Cracked the Code!
Excerpt from Austin-American Statesman |
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Recently, Harmony Public Schools received positive recognition from the Austin-American Statesman for its success at producing top-notch, college-ready students while maintaining a lean budget.
From the article:
Can traditional schools learn a lesson from charters' efficiency?
By Kate Alexander
Published: 8:55 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012
"Harmony Public Schools appears to have cracked the code.
The charter school system, with 38 campuses across Texas and more than 23,000 students, regularly produces students who excel at math, science and engineering. And they do it on a shoestring. Harmony's five schools in Austin spent $7,923 per student in 2010-11 on operating expenses, almost $1,600 less than the Austin school district and about $800 less than the statewide average. Harmony's schools have also consistently beat the rest of the state on standardized test scores even while educating about the same proportion of students considered at risk of dropping out.
Soner Tarim, Harmony's chief executive officer, said his schools are methodical about getting the most out of every employee, giving each person multiple jobs to ensure a leaner administrative operation.
Few other charter schools operate as efficiently and effectively as Harmony."
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| Seven Harmony Schools Made Newsweek's Top Schools List |
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 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.
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| Four Harmony Campuses Made into the Challenge Index |
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 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.
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| Harmony Public Schools and 60 Minutes: Setting the Record Straight |
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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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| Harmony Public Schools is on Facebook |
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| Letter to Key Stakeholders Regarding The New York Times Article |
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 From Superintendent Dr. Soner Tarim To the Harmony Public Schools Community: A disappointing article on charter schools in this week's New York Times attempts to put Harmony Public Schools in Texas in a context that is not accurate, necessitating this brief response. Many of us at Harmony Schools cooperated extensively with the Times on this story over the last several months, providing documents, interviews, tours and dozens of detailed responses to specific questions in good faith. But, as sometimes happens, the end result was not entirely what we had hoped. See the rest of Dr. Soner Tarim's response here: http://harmonytx.org/news/122/letter-to-stakeholders-on-ny-times-article/
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| Child Find |
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It is the policy of the Harmony Science Academy Charter School to locate and identify any child who contacts or enrolls in the Charter School who may have a disability and be in need of special education and related services, regardless of the severity of the disability, in accordance with its procedures as reflected in the CHILD FIND legal framework of the Legal Framework for the Child-Centered Special Education Process, located at: http://framework.esc18.net/. read more...
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