Speer is ‘teacher feature’ for Texas Music Educators Conference

David Speer, assistant band director and percussion coordinator at Frenship High School and Terra Vista Middle School, is the featured teacher on the Texas Music Educators Conference Web site.

Speer has been a member of TMEC since he was in college at the University of Texas at Austin, and he also met his wife there. TMEC is the Texas branch of a national organization called the Music Educators National Conference. He said he’s always had a love for music and was exposed to playing music because his mother played piano.

TVMS students make an Impact with washing

A team of Terra Vista Middle School Impact students saw a problem when shigellosis, a diarrheal illness, broke out last fall. The students were in need of a class project for a problem-solving competition. When they learned that there is a simple way to avoid shigellosis, they decided to try to promote the prevention: hand [...]

Terra Vista Middle School students hold memorial for eighth-grader

Hundreds of Terra Vista Middle School students and parents showed up outside the school entrance the evening of Feb. 12 to hold a candlelight memorial for student T.J. Tijerina, who died during a church function Feb. 11.   T.J., an eighth-grader at TVMS, was meeting with a church group in a private home. Students were [...]

TVMS cheerleaders attend national cheer camp

The Terra Vista Middle School cheerleaders for the 2008-09 school year attended the National Cheer Association camp July 31-Aug. 2 at Lubbock Christian University, and four of the them could be going to Hawaii.

TVMS cheerleaders participate in ‘Stuff the Bus’

Terra Vista Middle School cheerleaders participated in the South Plains Food Bank Stuff the Bus donation drive on Aug. 9 at United Supermarkets at 82nd Street and Frankford Ave.

Terra Vista teachers start training for TAP

Terra Vista Middle School teachers and administrators plan to attend three conferences this summer to learn how to motivate teachers in the classroom.

TVMS is the first Frenship campus to adopt the Teacher Advancement Program. Brent Lowrey, TVMS principal, said John Thomas, Frenship Superintendent, heard about the program last summer during a conference.

Texas Tech workshop accepts seven Terra Vista students

Terra Vista Middle School students took seven of 12 spots to attend a workshop at Texas Tech University.