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YES Prep students do Art for Haiti
January 24, 2010 by Jeremy Jones
Like 9th grade World History teacher Bonnie Rhoden (see Blog post “YES Prep Students Rock Band for Haiti”), I was horrified by the recent tragic events in Haiti. I also thought back to my own experience with large-scale tragedy. I was living and working in Manhattan on September 11, 2001. As I walked to work, I saw the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. That event changed my life in many ways. It had a huge impact on my decision to leave the career of advertising to give back through arts education. The arts can offer a powerful healing affect to those that experience a tragic event.
I was inspired by the compassion and dedication of YES Prep Southeast teachers James Sheridan and 
Dymisha Richardson to encourage our staff and students to get involved in the relief
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YES Prep Southeast Students Rock Band for Haiti Fundraiser
January 24, 2010 by Jeremy Jones
My mission as a World Geography teacher is to make our students citizens of the world. After seeing their reaction to the catastrophe in Haiti, I couldn’t be more proud. They care. They want to do something about the injustice that they are seeing. They are an amazing group of kids, and I am a better citizen of the world because of them. For instance, one of my students, 9th Grader Jessica Pungo, quipped, “We are all part of the world. Why not help our neighbors? Make the world a better place.”
We were horrified when we saw the news from Haiti: buildings collapsing, people’s lives destroyed, chaos everywhere. I often tell my students: If you don’t like something, you need to work to change it. Mahatma Gandhi reminds me daily in his world-famous quotation on my classroom wall,
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Can Inner City Prep School Succeed? Answer is YES
January 03, 2010 by Jeremy Jones
Please take time to read the AP article on YES Prep's Senior Class and the College Counseling program in the Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald, Washington Post, ABC News, and many other news outlets. Tell us what you think!
By MONICA RHOR Associated Press
HOUSTON — It was Deadline Day at YES Prep North Central, the day college applications were supposed to be finished, the day essays, personal statements and a seemingly endless series of forms needed to be slipped into white envelopes, ready for submission.
The day the school's first graduating class would take one leap closer to college.
The seniors inside Room A121 were sprinting, scurrying and stumbling to the finish line. They hunched over plastic banquet tables, brows furrowed and eyed fixed on the screens of Dell laptop
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Students Present Bids for the World Cup
December 07, 2009 by Jeremy Jones
On Thursday, December 3rd, the high school students at YES Prep East End all gathered in the Great Hall to advocate for their group’s country to be the host country of the 2018 World Cup. Parents, teachers, community member and peers walked around the room and perused each group’s World Cup bid before the expert panel, which was composed of two representatives from Houston’s professional soccer team – the Houston Dynamo – announced the winners.
In the weeks prior, the 9th and 10th grade Explorers dropped their normal schedules, formed groups of six or seven, and chose
a country to represent in the contest. Each day for a week, they met with a faculty advisor in the morning to set goals and deadlines, both for the group and for individual members. This involved creating an action
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YES Prep Students Know The Importance of Community Service
November 26, 2009 by Jeremy Jones
YES stands for "Youth Engaged in Service." Upon our founding, Chris Barbic understood that to truly create change in the nation's fourth largest city, he would have to think long-term. Designing a school around community service would increase the level of community engagement from students, parents and teachers. A greater level of engagement leads to more investment. Once students become truly invested in and take ownership of their communities, dynamic changes can occur.
The YES Prep East End students organized a service trip to a sister campus, YES Prep South. The East End Explorers spent a day with the South Cavaliers (all sixth graders) to read with them, provide mentorship on what it is like to be a YES Prep student, and help them with their homework. This had such an
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