Date: May 25, 2013
Time: 10 A.M.
Location: LBJ Auditorium at University of Texas at Austin
2405 Robert Dedman Dr Austin TX

If you have any questions please contact Mrs. Clifford at 512-251-5000x110 or hclifford@harmonytx.org.

Graduation Parking

Free parking will be available at UT for the graduation ceremony. Please park in Lot 40 near the Thompson Conference Center and LBJ Library. Parking in any other lot could result in ticketing and possible towing. Please click here for parking map.

Hurry and get your 2012-2013 HSANA Yearbook before they are all gone! There are only less than 20 copies left! All profits go to help purchase camera equipment for the yearbook staff. Please pay the front office by check or credit card and bring the receipt to room 123 to pickup your yearbook.

• August 12th, 10a.m.-12p.m.
• In our gym (if under construction, another site will be announced)
• Must have all forms completed to try out (Parent permission sheet, physical, fee form, and rule acknowledgement form)
• If make team, $40.00 fee will be due first day of school (8/21)
• Must be dressed in athletic attire with appropriate shoes and hair in ponytail
• If late or not dressed out, will not make team!
• Results will be posted next day at school, on Webpage, emails will be sent out, and possibly phone called made.
• If make the team, will have to attend the three practices before school starts on Aug 14th 4:30-6:30, Aug 17th 9-12, Aug 19th 4:30-6:30 at our school. (If under construction, another site will be announced)
• Don’t be shy to try-out! Feeder school students are welcome and encouraged to try-out!

Coaches: Coach Maldonado, Coach Preston, Coach Fields & Girl’s Athletic Coordinator is Coach Weaver

If you have questions or need to get information, email us at bweaver@harmonytx.org, rpreston@harmonytx.org, and jmaldonado@harmonytx.org

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SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS FOR AP STUDENT
SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS FOR DRAWING PAINTING STUDENTS
SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS FOR PRE AP STUDENTS

They participated in our first track meet in the APSA League on Saturday May, 11! They worked hard all semester and performed awesome! Our 7th grade boys got 2nd and 3rd in their relays, Zuri Davis placed first in the 100 meter run and Long Kieu placed third for the long jump. High School team was very successful as well! Congratulations!

Dear Students, Parents and Guardians:
Reading and writing are essential to learn about ourselves and our world. Students will read a variety of books over the summer and engage the texts through writing. Please see the attached summer reading suggested texts and choices for response. If you have questions, please contact your English language arts teacher or school administration. Enjoy your summer and have fun reading! read more . . .

On March 28-29, HSANA competed in the 2013 Alamo-FIRST region FTC(First Tech Challenge) robotics competition at San Antonio. There nearly 60 teams who had won at their local qualifying tournament competed for the chance to go to the FTC World Championship tournament in St.Louis. Two of these teams were HSANA's own. In the Naylor division, Team 4002 advanced to the semi-finals in their division and in the Kane division Team 6361 advanced to the final match to be part of the winning alliance at the FTC Alamo Region FTC Championship. Team 4002 consisted of Kaustubh L., Tyler T., Paras A., and Guru S., and Harris B. Teams 6361 consisted of Oscar F., Mario G., Sushith G., Gowrish V., and Farris B. We are very proud of our robotics teams for bravely competing in the difficult competition. We are really sad for losing the World Championship Tournament tragically in last minute, but We have got the Winning Alliance Trophy and returned victorious and proud of both of our teams for having fought so valiantly against such vicious competition. One can only wonder about the things to come.
We would like to thank Ms. Gutierrez and Mr. Coskuner along with the parents of many of the students for coming along to cheer us on. Also we would like to thank Mr. Flores, Mr. Senthil, Mr. Gallegos, and Mr. Lahiri for helping the teams throughout the year, and allowing our students to reach such great lengths with their robots. Finally we would like to thank Harmony Public Schools and Administrator for their generosity and funding, without which none of this would have been possible.

The Harmony Science Academy North Austin Quizbowl team participated in the Bluebonnet Bowl at the Village school in Houston, Texas on April 6th. Both the A and B team posted outstanding performances, with the B team scoring a fourth place finish in the regular difficulty division, while the A team got fifth place in the highly challenging national prep division. Full statistics for the event can be found here: http://www.texasquizbowl.org/2013/04/07/loyola-village-win-bluebonnet/

For more information about HSANA quizbowl including records, photos, schedules, and updates please like the HSANA Quizbowl Facebook Page.

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 Science Academy - North Austin 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 read more . . .

HSANA's STEM Festival Expo & Open House kicked off with a ceremonial opening by the high school Drumline. HSANA's first STEM Festival proved successful as parents saw what our students are doing and how much fun learning can be. Demonstrations by our students, included physics, chemistry, biology, and robotics demonstrations, with art exhibits, games and competitions, and international foods. Even superintendent, Ramazan Coskuner, participated in the spirit of the festival and was seen with a boa constrictor around his neck at one of the Biology demonstrations. Special thanks go out to Dr. Wyatt and the STEM committee, as well as all the teachers and students whose efforts made the festival a fabulously fun, exciting, and significantly educational learning experience!

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

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/

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...