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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 N orth 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 Teacher Lauded for Changing Students’ Lives

February 20, 2012 by Brittany Baize

Congratulations, Jeremy Tullis, instructor at YES Prep Southwest, for winning the Crystal Award from the Spring Branch Education Foundation!

"I've been in public schools for almost 30 years, and there's no one like him," said counselor Judy Kajander, who with school director Chris Claflin nominated Tullis.

Tullis' planning and leadership skills, high expectations of his students and the achievement results of his classes led to his recognition as teacher who has made a significant difference in his students' lives.

You can read the whole Houston Chronicle article

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AT&T Sends Santa to Surprise YES Prep Seniors

December 20, 2011 by Brittany Baize

On Wednesday of last week, ten YES Prep seniors headed to KIPP High School to represent YES Prep at a check presentation. They joined ten KIPP seniors to receive $10,000 in gifts for our two schools from AT&T. While smiling for the camera, they were surprised to see Santa enter the room with a large bag of presents! Santa passed out twenty wrapped boxes to the students.

As the gifts were passed down, J.J. Romero Cabrero was guessing what could be inside. "I thought the gift was a book." As the wrapping paper came off, the students realized AT&T had surprised them each with a Samsung tablet to take to college. Cabrero said, "Then I realized I could use this tablet to read a lot of books!" The students were thrilled and grateful for AT&T's holiday generosity to each individual

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1,000 Words: Literacy and Art

November 11, 2011 by Tara Alcancia

The YES Prep Fine Arts 3^rd Annual Visual Arts exhibition, 1,000 Words: Literacy and Art, opens next Wednesday, November 16^th at the Houston Public Library – Central Location (Downtown). The exhibition is on view until Saturday, December 31.

1,000 Words: Literacy and Artincludes art by 6^th through 12^th grade students from YES Prep Public Schools. Middle school and high school students from YES Prep Brays Oaks, East End, Gulfton, North Central, Southeast, and Southwest participated in this visual arts exhibition. To coincide with the art exhibition being held at the Houston Public Library, students created art through a variety of mediums that relates to literacy. The young artists learned about artists that integrate text and connect to literacy in their work, and they explored

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Gulfton Art Students Explore History through Portraits

October 26, 2011 by Lara Heiberg

For the past few weeks, YES Prep Gulfton High School students have been engaged in a rather new experience for many: creating art. Art I is a new course on the Gulfton campus, but the Force has already proven to themselves and all who see the student samples that what they lack in experience, they make up for in drive.

Gulfton students have been learning the techniques involved in drawing from photos and how to draw the face. With value studies and grid systems clearly mastered, students were given a face to draw. After a thoughtful character study, brush, pen and ink were used to create the portrait. Some of the results are here for you to see. While some more accurately depict the photo the student was given, all of the projects were successful in their own ways. Pride and a touch