Community outreach and goodwill are the lessons of the day as Worley Middle School students celebrated their annual holiday service project.

For 20 years, Rogene Worley Middle School has held an adopt-a-child holiday service project for students at Alice Ponder Elementary School.

During the holiday season, the Worley Middle School virtue of the month is caring. One of the ways the students and staff display this virtue is through the annual service project. Students at Alice Ponder Elementary are identified and "adopted" to receive gifts paid for by the Worley student council.

"We pair up our advisory kids so we have approximately 25 students assigned to one Ponder student," explains Worley Middle School principal Christie Alfred.

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Significant items from the December 15, 2009 School Board Meeting:

• The Board adopted new local graduation requirements to put back in Health Education and Technology Applications for next year's seniors that had been removed by the state.
• The Board approved the schematic design for Nancy Neal Elementary School scheduled to open in the Fall of 2011.
  

Timberview High School has received the 2009 College Readiness Award from the Texas ACT Council. This award recognizes schools for maintaining or increasing their number of students taking the ACT test along with their level of achievement and college readiness.

The ACT Assessment is the college admissions test that is used and accepted by all colleges nationwide and throughout Texas. Nearly 160,000 students took the ACT in Texas in 2009.

We are going to start featuring stories out of the student newspapers that are now available online thanks to the efforts of our high school journalism classes. Be sure to check out all of the great articles, features, commentary, photos, videos and more that these students are creating.

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The Jagwire - http://www.mysummitnews.com

In the shoes of the Pharmacists
The Pharmacology class, located at Ben Barber Career Tech Academy, has recently held a project for students within the class, where students create original drugs of their own. Students organize themselves into a group consisting of no more than three or four people, and come up with their own drug name. Also, students then must develop a speech of their own in order to help market their drug to pharmacies. They then must present to the class, as well as to actual pharmacists, their drug slide show, a homemade video, and a visual of what the drug looks like. More...

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The Rider Online - http://www.therideronline.com

Sexting: Unforeseen Consequences
Sarah* fell asleep clutching her white teddy bear. With her phone a couple inches from her head, she never thought any one would find the secret inside.

It was just a picture. An innocent photo taken a few minutes after arriving home from her double date. But the next morning proved her actions were less than harmless. More...
(*names have been changed)

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The Outlook - http://thsoutlook.com

Give moooooore to help others
Ms. Cox and her classes will help raise money for the Heifer organization this holiday season. Their goal of $500 will buy a family in another country a cow for their Christmas.

"Giving back to a family in need is really great because some of us take some of the smallest things for granted, we need to give back it's not all about us getting we should give," junior Rachel Jackson said. More...

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The Uproar - http://www.mhsuproar.com

Tis' The Season
A bright way to start off the season is digging out of all the Christmas lights hidden in the garage and potentially risking your life on a ladder to hang them. Though this tradition is becoming more and more uncommon, there are a few houses that go above and beyond to make sure their houses light up the night; so much so that they have become trademarks for holiday visitors. More...

Roberta Tipps Elementary

Roberta Tipps Elementary participated in two community outreach opportunities - a toy drive to benefit the Wesley Mission Center and a fundraiser event in honor of Meals on Wheels of Tarrant County.

The students and staff had two opportunities to spread joy in the community. Each grade level had their own toy theme, and for every dollar brought for Meals on Wheels, students were given a car to color and attach to a bulletin board located at the front of the school.

The students and staff of Roberta Tipps donated a total of 268 toys and raised $1,368 for Meals on Wheels.

Say it with a card, and support integrated learning. Ben Barber Career Tech Academy in Mansfield ISD has established a greeting card company inside the school to teach students real-world business applications and solutions.

The project, now in it's second year and named Pickle Productions Greeting Card Company, was first created out of a grant last school year.

Cathy Dunn Slagle, M.Ed., Marketing/Diversified Career Preparation, is the lead teacher for this project and she believes having an integrated approach has tremendous value for students.

"We were looking for a way to combine an ongoing project with the efforts from several different departments," said Slagle.

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3rd Grade

Annette Perry Elementary School
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1st Grade

Alice Ponder Elementary School
Serinity Howell
3rd Grade

Martha Reid Elementary School
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4th Grade

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Kayla Stayton
3rd Grade

Cora Spencer Elementary School
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Roberta Tipps Elementary School
Victoria Garcia
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