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YES Prep Northside Welcome Event This Saturday at the New Campus

March 25, 2011 by Matt Neal

What: YES Prep Northside Welcome Event
Who: the students of the Class of 2018 and their families
When: Saturday, March 26th, from 8:00a.m. until 1:30p.m.
Where: Moody Park (3725 Fulton Street, Houston, TX 77009)
Why: to meet our new classmates and to clean up our community
The Details:
YES Prep Northside is teaming with the Trash Bash to help clean up Little White Oak Bayou by Moody Park. It’s a great way to start building our school community through service to our larger community. All students who have been accepted through our enrollment lottery are invited to attend with their families. You will meet staff members from the school as well as other new YES Prep families – plus, you’ll receive the first-ever YES Prep Northside t-shirt! Clean-up supplies and lunch will be

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Moving Mountains and Minds in YES Prep North Central’s Art Class

March 15, 2011 by Jeremy Jones

Below is a guest blog post from YES Prep North Central Art teacher Manny Munoz.  Manny has been teaching art at YES Prep for three years and his students produce some wonderful works. 

"INSPIRE, MOTIVATE, CREATE!!!"

When walking through the hallways of YES Prep North Central one can’t help but notice the degree to which those words are put into action. Learning has taken on a life of its own, and no where can it more clearly be seen than in the eyes of our students; sitting amidst the shade of an old oak tree during a Tuesday morning art class.

Above, circled around each other in a manner befitting that of a family, sit a group of YES Prep 6th graders. The task at hand - a simple free hand drawing. The topic of discussion – nature and the inherent worth

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YES Prep Alumna:  I Became a living example of somebody that defied the odds

March 14, 2011 by Tenesha Villanueva

Alejandra Mendoza graduated from YES Prep Southeast in 2004.  She attended Texas A&M University where she majored in Business Administration/Finance with a minor in Spanish and graduated in 2008.  Alejandra currently works at YES Prep East End as Spanish III/ AP Spanish Language teacher and Spanish III Course Leader.   She had this to share about her experience at YES Prep and her time in college.   

What is your favorite YES Prep memory?

The Spring Trips we went on are by far my favorite memory as a student at YES Prep for a number of reasons. These trips exposed me and provided an opportunity for me to learn more about some of the best colleges and universities in the nation, and although I didn’t leave the state of Texas for college, visiting these colleges and universities

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YES Prep East End Builds an Explorer Ship for the 2011 Houston Art Car Parade

March 12, 2011 by Jeremy Jones

The transformation of theYES Prep East End Art Car is on its way and the students of East End are making an Explorer ship. If you are new to Houston you are in for a great time come the end of May. Houston hosts one of the largest art car parades in the country. You might be asking, “What in the world is an art car?” For a few creative examples check out these links: http://www.artcarmuseum.com/ or http://www.orangeshow.org/art-car/.

Our East End Explorers are transforming a Buick La Sabre into a ship using a variety of mediums. Our plan is to build up the back of the car and extend the front out to a point. We will then cut part of the roof off in order to hoist a mast and sail. After the car takes on the form of a ship we are going to attach pool noodles, spray paint them brown to

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First Year Teacher and Teach For America Corps Member Tim Tran Video about Teacher Support

March 10, 2011 by Jeremy Jones

YES Prep is a leader in teacher development.  In this video, first year 7th grade math teacher Tim Tran talks about the support he gets from Instructional Coach Elisa

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