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!

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The National Junior Honor Society and Team Andrew’s Heart would like to thank everyone at Harmony Science Academy who helped raise money to benefit the March of Dimes. Our team raised over $2,500 to help babies! We won 2nd place in our category for fundraising and Best Design in the t-shirt contest! We had a great turnout at the March for Babies to support this important cause that is near to our hearts.

On March 28, four HSA-Odessa students traveled to San Antonio to compete in the ExxonMobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair. They were competing against the brightest young scientists in Texas! Taylor Leblanc-Busby, Garrett Peck, Ana Trueba, and Shayna Engdahl worked very hard to make it to this point, and they represented our school well!

Congratulations to Shayna Engdahl for winning the Department of the Army Award! She is the first HSA-Odessa student to win an award at the state level!! Way to go!!

An enormous thank you goes out to every student, parent, and teacher who made this year’s Science Fair activities such a success.

Congratulations to all students who participated in the Panhandle Regional Science Olympiad on March 30th, 2013! Harmony Science Academy participated in the competition with 16 students in two teams. They all worked very hard and represented our school very well.

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We had 16 students who won awards. Please see the award list in the below link. In addition, Harmony Science Academy – Odessa won the 1st Place as a team and advanced to Texas Science Olympiad in College Station.
Our Olympiad Team will all be traveling to College Station on May 2, 2013 to compete against students from around the state at the State Wide Science Olympiad! Congratulations to all of the students on their success!

Special Thanks go to Mr. Han, his team and Students' Parents!!! read more . . .

HSA-Odessa Outreach Committee would like to send a big “Thank You!” to everyone who participated in this year’s Pasta for Pennies drive to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Thanks to your sincere effort and extreme generosity, we more than doubled last year’s effort and exceeded our final goal by more than $1000!
With a grand total of $3,658.88, this has been our largest fundraiser yet and we are proud to be sponsoring such a great cause.
Congratulations to Mrs. Radcliff’s class who collected more than $1,000 and will be receiving the Olive Garden pasta lunch. Additionally, our 2nd and 3rd place classes will also have their choice of either an ice cream or cookie party as a gift for their efforts from the Outreach Committee.
Thank you again!

Congratulations to all students who participated in the UTPB Science Fair on Saturday! Harmony Science Academy had 30 students who participated in the competition. They all worked very hard and represented our school well.

We had 8 students who won awards. Shayna Engdahl, Garrett Peck, Taylor Leblanc-Busby, Yudith Molinar, and Amanda Carrasco won first place in their categories. Ana Trueba won second, and Nathan Peck got third place! In addition, Garrett Peck and Ruben Colomo won a special award from the National Association of Corrosion Engineers. Shayna Engdahl also won awards from the National Association of Petroleum Engineers and the Excellence in Science Award, and earned $13,000 in scholarships to UTPB and $300 in cash!

Shayna, Garrett, Taylor, and Ana will all be traveling to San Antonio on March 28 to compete against students from around the state at the Exxon Mobil Texas Science and Engineering Fair! Congratulations to all of the students on their success!

Special Thanks go to Mrs. Hurst and Students' Parents!!!

Harmony Science Academy - Odessa 2012 NCLB Report Card

Parent Notification Letter in English

Parent Notification Letter in Spanish

In memory of the victims and in support of the families of the Sandy Hook tragedy, Harmony Science Academy-Odessa has hosted three ‘jeans days’ to raise funds which will be donated to the Sandy Hook School Support Fund through the United Way of Western Connecticut.
Today, Friday December 21, students were asked to wear their favorite green or white shirt, recognizing the Sandy Hook school colors and paying respects to their families from afar. Additionally, students participating in the fundraiser were given green and white ribbons to proudly display their support.
Over three days, Harmony Science Academy collected more than $1,000 for the Sandy Hook School Support Fund.
The HSA-Odessa Outreach Committee is proud to be part of such a generous community. Thank you for your support and participation.

On December 1st, 2012, students from Harmony Science Academy competed in the MATHCOUNTS competition at Toyota Center in Houston, TX.

The following students took home ribbons after intense competition with other students from around Texas. Aysa Ali (6th grade) --- 1st
Raul hurtardo(6th Grade)--- 2nd Place , Ana Trueba(8th grade)---2nd Place Team and Nehal Kamel(8th grade)--6th Place Team

MATHCOUNTS is a national math enrichment program promoting mathematic achievement in middle school students. The National Society of Professional Engineers at the state and local level, along with generous support from volunteers and sponsors provide middle school students with the foundation for success in science, technology engineering and mathematics careers.

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Our 9th Graders visited two College Campus on December 7, 2012, Baylor in Waco and UT Austin.
Before choosing the best college to attend, it is important for students to test the waters. Making a college visit and touring the campus can be pivotal in a student's decision to apply to school.
When such opportunities occur early in the college planning process, take time to go "window shopping." See as many different kinds of places as you can—big schools, small schools, research universities, liberal arts colleges, urban campuses, and places way out in the country. By visiting many colleges at a time when there is no pressure to "buy," you give yourself a broad perspective on what is out there. Check out the inventory so that when it is time to buy, you know what you like and you know where to find it.
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Dear Harmony Public Schools Family

We are honored to share the news that Harmony Public Schools recently named finalists in the Race to the Top – District competition. Being considered a finalist for the Race to the Top – District awards is validation of our commitment to a standard of excellence at Harmony. The Race to the Top distinction is a welcome recognition of the hard work and dedication of our teachers, parents and students.

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Harmony Science Academy- Odessa is proud to announce its first group of students ever to be inducted in the National Junior Honor Society. NJHS is a prestigious national organization that is dedicated to developing our future’s leaders. Students selected have demonstrated excellence in scholarship, leadership, service, character, and citizenship. Congratulations to these students on their induction: Kevin Cordoba, Shane Evans, Samantha Klein, Sara Evans, Jessica Gonzalez, Matthew Lawson, Damian Busby, Carina Heredia, Kimberly Pate, and Garrett Peck.

Dr. Lloyd, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at UTPB, has volunteered to mentor our student Shayna Engdahl. Today we were honored to visit Dr. Lloyd in his office at UTPB and look forward to working with him over the course of the next several weeks.
We would like to thank Dr. Lloyd for taking time out of his busy schedule to help our student with her Science Project.

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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Texas is celebrating "National School Choice Week" this week.

Events are planned across the state to highlight the need for enhanced education options for students.

The movement hopes to inspire parents to look at all options outside of their neighborhood schools.

There are options here in West Texas. Over the years several charter schools have popped up in our area.

Harmony Science Academy has locations across the state and 2 years ago a campus opened up here in Odessa. Parents immediately jumped on board and they say, for them, it was by far the right move.

"We make sure that every one of them goes to college," enforces Principal Emin Cavusoglu.

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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/

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...