February 5, 2010 – Brent Williams, Agricultural Science Teacher from Poolville will receive the HERO AWARD at the 2 p.m. matinee performance of the Fort Worth Rodeo! CONGRATULATIONS, BRENT, FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING SERVICE AND SUCCESS!!
April 17, 2010 – HERO Award for Choral-Voice Teacher at Bass Hall
May 8, 2010 – HERO Award for Instrumental Music Teacher at Bass Hall
Saturday, February 20 is the date for our upcoming TCU Fall in Love with Reading Festival. It will be from 9 to 11 a.m. in the new TCU indoor football practice facility. Kids, ages 4 to 11 years old, will love reading with and to the Famous Reading Frogs! There will be numerous attractions, entertainment, free age-appropriate books, eye examinations and other surprises!
Plan to attend this increasingly popular, successful SCORE A GOAL event * click on here for more information Feb Festival Eng Invitation 2010 Feb Festival Span Invitation 2010
CHEVROLET - OFFICIAL VEHICLE OF THE WEST - Cornerstone Sponsor of 2010 Western Heritage Celebration
JANUARY 16, 2010 “Round up yer posse now and ya’ll come” - Free, family-fun event with lots of entertainment, chuckwagon cookin’, and a ton of things to see and learn about our legendary Western Heritage!
BOB TALLMAN - Renowned Rodeo Announcer
BJ Nightshelter flyer We have instituted a new intiative – “Sleeping Bag for the Homeless,” with the co-leadership of B.J. LaCasse and are proud to be making another difference in our community where it really counts! Check out the attached flyer and call 817.429.4024 for more information.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railways and Score A Goal In The Classroom School Incentive Program are bringing J.C. Watts to Fort Worth ISD’s Dunbar High School on December 9, 2009. At this 11:15 a.m. Success Rally, J.C. will speak to the students and teachers about “The Best Is Yet to Come.” This special Success Rally is another example of Score A Goal In The Classroom’s commitment and efforts to mentor students, and encourage them that they are “at promise.”
For additional information, call 817.429.4024.
R B Press Release 09 Saturday, November 21, 2009
From over 63,000 2nd graders in North Texas classrooms, twenty-nine second graders competed since September and were chosen to represent their districts/schools in the Score A Goal In The Classroom TEXAS READING BEE CHAMPIONSHIPS at Texas Christian University. It may have been the most exciting Saturday morning of their lives! Each of the 29 champions received many thrilling awards and had their pictures taken and autographed with Miss Texas 2009, Kristen Blair. This reading competition is sponsored by the Wal-Mart Foundation, and greatly stimulates kids to “fall in love with reading.”
The five top winners are as follows: THE CHAMPION, in 1st place – Olivia Jones, from Arlington ISD / 2nd place Runner Up – Adam Wray from Burleson ISD / 3rd place champ – Tolu Agunblade from Castleberry ISD / 4th place champ – Madeline Pedersdon from St. Paul Lutheran School / 5th place champ – Jakob Conrad - Mansfield ISD. CONGRATULATIONS to all who participated in this very successful, exciting event. (Click on to Press Release, above, for more names and information).
THE “LEGENDS” – Also honored at this event were the past eight Texas Reading Bee grand champions!! Listed here are the names in order of year in which they won -
The TEXAS LEGENDS READING BEE CHAMPIONS
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2001 – Scott Smith, Fort Worth ISD
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2002 – Cade Fuller, Brock ISD
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2003 – Taylor Smith, Pantego Christian Academy in Arlington
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2004 – Bethany Presley, Alvarado ISD
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2005 – Jorena Lim, Pantego Christian Academy in Arlington
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2006 – Kenneth Pascua, Arlington ISD
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2007 – Campbell Mastellar, Burleson ISD
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2008 – Carlos Arrazola, Arlington ISD
FOLKS AT Texas Christian University, WE OWE YOU A BIG DEBT OF GRATITUDE . . .
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Victor Boschini, TCU Chancellor
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Ross Bailey, TCU Associate Athletic Director
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Chris Del Conte, TCU Athletic Director
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Jason Byrne, TCU Director of Marketing
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Lindsay Shoulders, TCU Spirit Coordinator
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Clayton Thomas, TCU Student Reading Czar
Super Frog helps student 'fall in love with reading!'
The very successful TCU Reading Festival on Saturday morning, October 24, 2009 welcomed about 3600 North Texas elementary students to TCU’s new indoor football practice facility, where the TCU Famous Reading Frogs and other elite volunteers read to and with the four to eleven-year olds! Students were given three age-appropriate books and an array of special prizes and posters; Wal*Mart-Sam’s Stores also gave free eye examinations. Dr. Melody Johnson, FWISD superintendent, and Chief Academic Officer Michael Sorum attended, mingling with and encouraging many students, staff and faculty members. Miss 2009 Fort Worth, Faith Bates, and Miss Teen Fort Worth greeted folks and autographed pictures. A special teepee was set up for animated story telling, and fun was to be had for all. SCORE A GOAL IN THE CLASSROOM thanks all who came and had a part!!
Fort Worth Superintendent gives her stamp of approval!
Congratulations to all these fine recipients, and “thank you” to all who made nominations!!
2009 B H Friedman HERO list
BNSF Campus Mentoring Visits in 2009
This year, ninth-grade students are benefitting from the successful “Stay on Track – Stay in School” mentoring initiative Score A Goal In the Classroom is sponsoring at Burlington Northern Santa Fe. Here is the schedule -
O.D. Wyatt High School – September 8, 2009
Dunbar High School – September 29, 2009
Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School – October 5 and 6
Castleberry High School – October 27, 2009
South Hills High School – November 16 2009
Eastern Hills High School – December 3, 2009
BNSF Campus Mentoring Visits Last Year
In the 2008-2009 school year, SCORE A GOAL hosted the following schools at Burlington Northern -
- Diamond Hill High School October 1, 2, 2008
- Arlington Heights High School October 24, 2008
- Castleberry High School October 28, 2008
- O.D. Wyatt High School November 21, 2008
- Dunbar High School December 5, 2008
- Everman High School February 6, 2009
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NBC Universal Foundation recently awarded Score A Goal In The Classroom School Incentive Program a $25,000 grant to support its Success Rallies and Stay in Schoolprograms for the 2008 – 2009 school year. The Fort Worth-based nonprofit presently serves 540,000 students in 39 public school districts and 35 private schools across North Texas. more