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Join us for the 2nd Annual YES Prep Author Night

February 22, 2012 by Brittany Baize

By Leigh Anne Rayburn

We hope you will join us for the 2nd Annual YES Prep Author Night!

The Author Study is a three-month project that AP English Language students in the twelfth grade undertake in the spring semester.  The objective is to explore one author in great depth and breadth.  Students must read over 700 pages by the writer they choose, and the reading may be a collection of nonfiction, fiction, drama, poetry, and essays.  They are charged with becoming fluent in that author’s style, attitude, and influence to the literary canon. 

At Author Night, seniors from YES Prep Southeast, Southwest, and North Central come together to present their findings and converse with literarily-minded folks from around the community:  not just staff members within YES, either.  Last

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YES Prep Professionals: Service, Leadership, and Socializing

December 15, 2011 by Brittany Baize

We want to thank all of our YES Prep Professionals (YPP) members who brought their friends to our first annual holiday party on Tuesday, December 13th to learn more about how to get involved and support the mission of YES Prep.  Over 50 people attended the celebration at Guadalajara, and, thanks to the dedicated recruitment efforts of our YPP corps, 40 attendees were new faces!  We are well on our way of reaching our big goal: 100 volunteers at our next service day on Saturday, January 28th.

We also want to thank our generous sponsors for this event: Liskow & Lewis and Guadalajara Bar & Grille.

If you missed the holiday party mark your calendar for our biggest YPP recruitment event yet!  On Thursday, January 19th, YPP will be hosting a party at St. Arnold Brewery - complete with

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YES Prep Southeast Student Artwork to be featured at Lawndale Art Center for Dia de los muertos

September 09, 2010 by Tara Alcancia

Great News from the Art Dept and Marjorie's Spanish Classes:

We submitted a proposal to possibly show student art at the Lawndale Art Center (a professional art gallery in Houston) for their Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead exhibition and celebration.  We are very excited to announce that our proposal was accepted!  At least 5 middle school students and at least 5 high school students from YES Prep Southeast (art classes and Marjorie's Spanish classes) will have the rare opportunity to display their art in a professional art gallery setting for almost a month (along with art by professional artists).  Over the next several weeks in class, we will be focusing on the meaning and history of the Day of the Dead, and students will be creating retablos.

Please mark your calendars for

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Septemeber Teaching and Leading Excellence Recruiting Events

September 01, 2010 by Jeremy Jones

Each year, YES Prep's recruitment and selection team embarks on an ambitious nation-wide search for our country's top leaders.  In the month of September, we will be hosting various events across the country.  Here is our September calendar.  Come out and meet us:

SEPTEMBER 7 -

2010-2011 Online Teacher Application goes live

SEPTEMBER 8 -

Rice University Fall Career Fair, 11a-4p, Grand Hall @ the Rice Memorial Center

http://cspd.rice.edu/careerexpo

SEPTEMBER 29 -

University of Michigan Fall Career Expo, 2p-6p, Michigan Union

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