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Gaining Community Awareness
ACH Child and Family Services has been around for years, but not a lot of people know that it aids families with adoption, helps homeless and runaway youth obtain emergency housing, and partners with the East Arlington Family Support Center. | Catherine Wilson and Glory Dalton of Arlington Reads discuss the Arlington Public Library's literacy program.
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Book Battles
You know a competition is a pretty big deal when elementary students give up recess and hanging out with buddies at lunch to read books and discuss what they read in stark detail. | Fifth-grade teams from Butler, Hill and Pearcy elementaries were Gold Medal winners.
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AISD Celebrates Black History
 From a number-crunching marathon runner to a former professional football player turned country singer to a high school debutante, the message during this year's array of Black History Month celebrations in the AISD was simple and direct: don't quit and keep your eyes on the prize. | Marathon runner and CPA Raymond Best talks to Sherrod Elementary students during the school's Black History Month program.
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Learning About LIFE
 Each time Sherry Williams asked a question - have you done this before, or that or the other - hands would fly up. The workshop was called Better Choices, and Williams, a health educator with Tarrant County Public Health, was asking serious questions of students about social behavior, sexuality, drug use and eating habits. | Tarrant County Public Health Educator Sherry Williams talks with Devin G. and Lauren C., both eighth graders at Barnett Junior High, during a LIFE Academy session.
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