Annual Report

2014 – 2015ANNUAL REPORT

FISD #1

• Friendswood Independent School District is the number one Best School District in the Houston Metro Area according to Niche K-12

Friendswood High School made the #20 spot on the list of Houston's Best Public High

Schools for 2015! Niche

Friendswood Junior High Choir4 FJH choir members participated in the Texas Choral Directors Assoc. Elementary Honor Choir in San Antonio this summer. Kate Humlicek, Emma Ryan, Anna McHenry & Alice Nguyen with teachers Carrie Hall, Laura Rachita, & Glynis David.

Brooke Humlicek & Margaret Otto had the unique opportunity to be involvd in a demonstration choir during one of the state clinician’s workshops.

Westwood Bales track record holder is Junior Olympian, AAU medalist

Matthew Kovacevich, sixth grader at FJH 3 medals, 1 gold & 2 silver

FISD, FHS win THIRD

LONE STAR CUPMayor Kevin Holland read a proclamation about the win.

FHS teacher Annette Walter presented UTD Computer Inspiration Award

2014 Clean Air Champion

The Houston-Galveston Area Council Recognizes

Friendswood ISDfor

Its commitment to support voluntaryMeasures reducing air pollution

And promoting regionalAir quality initiatives.

Transportation Director Mike Jones

Friendswood ISD Earns State’s Highest Fiscal Accountability Rating

• FISD received a rating of “Superior Achievement” under Texas’ School FIRST financial accountability rating system. The rating system measures the quality of a school district’s financial management and reporting. The Superior Achievement rating is the state’s highest, demonstrating the quality of FISD’s financial management and reporting system.

5 National Merit Finalists

Five Friendswood High School seniors have been named Merit finalists in the 2015 National Merit Scholarship competition. They include Molly M. Chen, Thomas J. Chenette, Hannah Hall, Julia J. Lu, and Stephanie A. Ngo.

22 named National Merit Commended Students

FHS’ commended students consists of Andrew Adcox, Anne Balderrama, Benjamin Beck, Andrew Bynum,, Matthew Chenette, Cooper Dixon, Derek Hudson, Sean Jankowski, Rachel Jensen, Yumna Khan, Sarah Mai, Kaitlin Martin, Edward Pettit, Evan Roper, Shanika Silva, Sam Slusky, Jonathan Snowden, Andrew Stone, Vivian Tat, Robert Todd, Olivia Williams and Westin Williams.

National Hispanic Recognition

Four Friendswood High School seniors have been named 2014-2015 National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholars. These include Andrew Adcox, Anne Balderrama, Bishop Lopez, and Robert Todd.

Texas Comptroller Leadership Circle Platinum Award

New Platinum Award for

financial transparency

given to only 123 districts in more

than 1050 ISDs in Texas. Second

Year for FISD to be in Leadership

Circle.

Legends presents Transition Center Ford Expedition for their usage

The Legends of Friendswood non-profit group known for its annual golf tournament honoring the memory of MIke Doiron donated $10,000 to Friendswood ISD to purchase a white Ford Expedition for the district's Special Ed Transition Center.

FHS Marching Band ties for 14th

at 6A Contest in San Antonio

• FHS is 14th out of 245 State HS Bands.

Mustang Band

• In the past 12 years under Greg Dick’s direction, FHS has placed more students in the All-State Band than any other school in our music region.

• FHS's 10 6A All-State band musicians number the 3rd highest of any 6A high school in Texas.

Band performs at grand opening of First Choice Emergency Room

New business donates $5000 to FHS Mighty Mustang Band.

FHS Band has 13 make Orchestra

Record breaking amount. Most of all other schools in area.

13 freshmanMustang Band members earned positions in the 9th Grade Region 17 Band. They do not play a concert; it is an honor group only.

The 13 Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors performed in the Region Orchestra concert.

Board member Montz in TASB select group for trustees

Third board member in 3 years

David Montz, DDS shown here with Anne McCausland from Frisco ISD and (middle) John Green of Nordheim ISD.

Tony Hopkins & Matt Robinson, M.D

Previous Participants

NRG-Reliant Foundation Athlete• Sarah Redding, nominated by her coach, is one of 8 students in the

Greater Houston Metroplex to receive $5000 for outstanding academics, community service, and athletic skills. This is our first time to receive this.

Wranglerettes march in Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade

The Friendswood High School Wranglerettes enjoyed a bit of the national spotlight as they spent their holiday performing in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. They also appeared on the NYC Today Show.

51 make Region Choir

WW-B students recite Preamble at 2015 Swearing In Ceremony of Galveston County Officials

State DAR Award

• Friendswood High School Teacher, Mrs. Dianne Hanegan, Chosen Outstanding Teacher of American History of the Year by Texas Society Daughters of the American Revolution

• Outstanding Teacher of American History for 2014 by Jane Long Chapter of NSDAR

Adopt a Grant Program

In its sixth year, this program had 275 grants

purchased

National Awards

• National Spanish Exam-2nd Place/Michael Fowler• Adrian Falco: senior alto saxophone member of FHS

Band won 2 major competitions

•Clear Lake Symphony Senior Concerto Competition playing Fantasia by Claude T. Smith. He will perform Fantasia on March 27, 2015, with the Clear Lake Symphony.

•First place in the American Protege International Brass and Winds competition. He was one of four that received Judges’ Distinction. He will perform in a recital at Carnegie Hall in New York City on March 21, 2015.

•Made All-State Band three times consecutively.

5 All State Choir, 3 Alternates

10 selected for All State Band

Education Foundation gives $122,399 in grants during surPrize Patrol

Aerospace Engineering builds underwater airlock at Natatorium

MARY POPPINS

• FHS Alum at Disney Theatricals helps FISD get license to present Mary Poppins

2 wins, 11 nominations for Tommy Tune Awards at Hobby Center

Audrey McKee in her Mary Poppins role won Best Leading

Actress and will attend a special

workshop in NYC. She will appear on

Broadway with the group.

FHS Musical Program also won the Best Orchestra Award.

A new FISD Schools Museum is underway at Annex

City presents FHS Recycling Club with Partnership Award at Board Meeting

The club won the prestigious Keep

Texas Beautiful Youth Leadership

Award for their cafeteria recycling

program.

Art students earn 43 gold medals, 5 pieces compete at State in VASE

Visual Arts Scholastic Event

Rodeo Art 9 pieces were taken to Houston Exhibit

Rodeo Art

Spelling Bee Winners

Windsong WinnersMarshall Prince &runner up Madison Fuhr

Cline Winner Baleigh Burtis

Westwood-Bales Winner Ryan Flick with runner up Emma Hoang and teacher Betsy Conn

FJH Winner Tonya Roysam with runner up Rohan Sunkureddi

Honor Circle Awards to FISD, Windsong

Chamber honors FISD for 75 Years of Friendswood Schools

National Champions Cheer AmericaJan. 31 & Feb 1 NRG Stadium

FHS Cheerleaders Intermediate Team wins National Championship at Cheer AmericaNovice Team: 2nd Place

Mars Rover Contest at UH

• Windsong team - First Place• Bales teams – Second, Fourth & Fifth Places

Academic Decathlon competes in first 6A Large School Regional Contest

• 2nd place in Super Quiz and Regional Overall• 2nd highest points in State in 6A comp.• 48,863 points (highest in FISD AD history)• 36 medals

VASE Awards

• Visual Arts Scholastic Event

• FHS artists won 43 medals!• 5 art pieces & 4 students will be going to the

State VASE Event in Dallas in April.

High School Athletics

• Football – Area Champs, 3rd in District• Girls Swimming –Regional & District Champs• Boys Swimming – 3rd in Region, 2nd in District• Cross Country – 2nd at District• Wrestling – 2nd at District• Water Polo – District Champs• Baseball – District Champs

Technology 2015

• Deployed 2,818 chromebooks and 390 ipads/mini.

• Increased internet bandwidth from 100 megabits per second to 300 mbps.

• From first day of school till now, average for billing is 247 mbps.

• Bandwidth biggest peak was 496 mbps.

Cheer Team wins Komen Awards

Friendswood High School Cheerleaders were presented with an award from Annie Stafford of The Susan G. Komen Race. They were the largest high school fundraising team and the largest participating high school walking team. Additionally, Tania Cruz of Susan G. Komen presented them with an award as one of the largest overall fundraising teams for 2015.

Water Polo team wins District 33

Senior Matt Garry wasf he Year. Coach of the Year.

Senior Matt Garry was named 1st Team All Region & Junior Andrew Saul was named Honorable Mention Team All Region. Mustang Coach Jeff Otten was named Boys Regional Coach of the Year.

Greg Dick wins TBA Award

Friendswood High School band director Greg Dick has been selected by the Texas Bandmasters Association (TBA) Board of Directors as a 2015 Meritorious Achievement Award winner.This award recognizes his outstanding career as a band director and for his many contributions to students. In addition, he is being honored for his commitment and service to the band profession as a whole.

FFA receives 2nd consecutive Herdsman Award

FJH 5 in Texas Choral Directors Association Honor Choir

FHS principal named first South Texas National Forensics League District Principal of the year

4 compete in Texas Forensic State Meet

Texas Forensic Association State Meet is the nation's largest State Championship for Speech and Debate.

State Geography BeeFJH eighth grader, Kyle Flick, competed in the State Geography Bee. He competed the first round with a perfect score and placed 11th in the State after a tie-breaker round of 19 contestants.

FJH Color Guard State Champions

The FJH group outscored 22 high school teams and had the highest score in the division in the past two years. The team of 27 is the largest in FJH Guard history.

JV Color Guard places 5th in State

Varsity Color Guard competes at WGI for fourth year

Winter Guard International Sport of the Arts at Dayton, Ohio.

DECA has 18 compete at State, 1 alternate to Nationals

FCCLA has 12 compete at State

Family, Career & Community Leaders of America

FJH UIL competitions all #1

.

Friendswood Junior High

Theatre Arts Department

won first place for their 2015 UIL One Act Play, And a Child Shall

Lead.

FJH UIL Academic Meet won Sweepstakes FJH Concert Treble Choir, Chamber Choir & Mustang Chorus all

received top marks in UIL FJH Symphonic Band, Concert Band & Honors Band won UIL

Sweepstakes

SkillsUSA has 21 compete at State

HOSA competes at Nationals, State

TSA has 62 compete at State

Technology Students Association

BPA competes at Nationals, State

4 competed at BPA National Contest in California

18 Business Professionals of America (BPA) members competed at State contest in Dallas.

TOP 10 Honored by Friendswood Chamber of Commerce

FJH Swim Team Wins District

FISD wins 26 medals, 10 ribbons at Special Olympics

FHS Football Program wins Gold Award from National High School Sports Publication Awards

Senior wins International Award

Senior Karan Jareth received the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award of $50,000 at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair along with an all expenses paid trip to India for their International Science Fair.

Jerath & Aditya Mohile competed at the Intel ISEF.

2015 Val & Sal

ValedictorianStephanie Ngo

SalutatorianJulia Lu

STAFF ACCOLADES

Trish Hanks

• President of Texas Academic Decathlon for second consecutive term

• Serves on UIL Music Division Committee• Serves on TASA Executive Committee• Presented at TASA TASB “Alternatives to Offset

Health Costs”• Presented at TASA Midwinter with Karen Hillier• Presented at Bay Area Schools Consortium• Serves on Board of FISD Education Foundation

The Public Education Visioning Institute

• Mark Griffon• Barry Clifford• Nelda Guerra• Dana Drew• Terri Bruce

Bus Drivers compete in State

Barbara Gruener• 2014 Rotary Service Award: FISD Teacher of the Year• May 30, 2104: Release of my book What's Under Your Cape?

SUPERHEROES of the Character Kind • Sept. 2014: Book receives a Mom's Choice Gold Award• June 2014: Joined National Character Counts! Faculty at Josephson

Institute of Ethics • June 2014: Presented workshops in Missouri and Wisconsin at their

annual Character Education conferences• June 2014: Gave Keynote Address at Character Matters conference in

San Diego• October 2014: Gave opening Keynote at 21st annual Character

Education Partnership National Forum on Character Education• Presenting in July of 2015 at Character Summit in Mexico!

Greg Dick

• In the past 12 years under Greg Dick’s direction, FHS has placed more students in the All-State Band than any other school in our music region.

• He presented at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention and The Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic.

• He is on the Sudler Flag Committee of the John Philip Sousa Foundation.

• He serves on the School Task Force of the American Bandmasters Association.

Katy Webb- FJH

• Science Teacher Mentor (STM) through the Texas Regional Collaborative for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching (TRC). There are only 1,261 STMs in the state of Texas.

• Presented two sessions at the 2015 Annual Regional Science Teachers Conference in Galveston.

• Presented two sessions at the 8th Annual Texas Stem Conference in Austin.

Janwin Overstreet-Goode

• Currently President of the Texas Music Educators Association.

• Presented at the Texas Choral Directors Association convention in 2012, 2013, and will again this summer (2015.)

Kathy Powdrell

• Presented as one of The University Interscholastic League's One Act Play Directors Who Have Won the Most (FISD -13 times!) at Texas Educational Theatre Association Theatrefest February 1, 2015

Laura Peter

• Recently re-elected for second two-year term as secretary for TASCO, the State soccer coaches association.

Paula Jones• Presented at the state convention (TAHPERD)

for the radKIDS Program.

Meredith Wise

• Presented at TCEA 2015 and TIVA MidWinter conference 2015

• On the board of TIVA, Texas Industrial and Vocational

Association as District President. • President of an affiliate organization, AVACA, Audio Video,

Arts and Communication Association. • Chair of the Job Interview contest at the district level with

SkillsUSA.

Al Tag

• State Treasurer for AVACA/TIVATIVA: Texas Industrial Vocational AssociationAVACA: Audio Visual Arts & Communications Association

Stephen Peter

• 2014-2015 TASCO Vice President

Communications Dept. earns 2 gold medals for Best at State

• Texas School Public Relations Association (TSPRA) Best of Category for FISD’s Kindergarten Round Up FLYER (Gold medal)

• TSPRA Best of Category for Education Foundation Moonlight Masquerade Program (Gold Medal)

• Gold Star Awards in Flyer, Invitation, Annual Report, Image Identity Packages, Program

• Silver Star Awards in Holiday work, Booklet, Posters, Special Event, Announcement, Published

• Bronze Star Awards in Print Advertisement, Calendar

Stacy Daugherty

• Will be presenting at the State Assessment

Conference. • Past president of the Texas Statewide Network

of Assessment Professionals• Continues to sit on the board of directors for

the organization.

What a GREAT YEAR in FISD!

Excellence? It’s a SNAP!

75 years & counting….