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Five reasons to apply to teach at YES Prep

April 24, 2010 by Jeremy Jones

The Top Five Reasons to Apply to Teach at YES Prep:

5.  We make fun videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SQHAzVXmks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TfiRIOj9xA&feature=related

4.  We work with amazing teachers

http://yesprep.org/TheAnswer/full/pastelpalooza_at_yes_prep_east_end/

http://yesprep.org/TheAnswer/full/the_ideal_yes_prep_teacher/

3.  We work with awesome students

http://yesprep.org/TheAnswer/full/yes_prep_north_central_senior_is_a_2010_dell_scholarship_winner/

http://yesprep.org/TheAnswer/full/spring_trip_qa_from_yes_prep_se_junior_adrian_turcios/

2.  We are opening our 8th campus this year

http://yesprep.org/TheAnswer/full/yes_preps_next_school_director_and_his_billion_dollar_school/

1.  We are going to triple the number of low-income Houston

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The Ideal YES Prep Teacher

April 19, 2010 by Jeremy Jones

The Ideal YES Prep Teacher has clear goals that are associated in some sense with becoming the best in a given context (i.e. obtaining “exemplary” rating in TAKS, becoming a School Leader, promoting, obtaining and sustaining high student achievement). Not only that, but, the Ideal YES Teacher has the self-discipline required to become the best and to continue giving a 100% effort over the long haul. Along the same lines, the Ideal YES Teacher strives for perfection in all endeavors. This means he/she typically throws in extra time, resources, and effort in order to produce a highly refined and polished lesson. In other words, this teacher epitomizes the continual improvement philosophy, always looking for ways to set a higher standard.

Besides having great ambition, self-discipline

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I’m not coaching athletes, I’m coaching teachers

February 26, 2010 by Jeanne Fruge Rodriguez

As the students entered the classroom, I took a deep breath and mentally reminded myself that this was my classroom and that I had a Master’s Degree in education. I was ready for this. Ready for them. Once they were all seated and I got their attention, fear struck. The room full of faces that looked nothing like mine, the hard stares, the fact that not one of those eighth graders was smiling, was almost too much to bear. My lesson plan, five years of educational theory and pedagogy courses and my internship had not prepared me for this moment. I questioned myself as teacher that day and many times during that first year in the classroom. I questioned my abilities, my intellect, and most disheartening of all, I questioned my life’s desire to teach. Happily, I survived that day and the

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YES Prep’s Next School Director and his “billion dollar” school

February 08, 2010 by Matt Neal

Early in my teaching career – before I’d been exposed to the exhilarating and exhausting world of high-performing urban charter schools – a student of mine asked me what I would do with a billion dollars.  Since I’m not a connoisseur of “bling,” I had to think for a moment, but the answer eventually arrived: “I’d build the best school in the world.”  Little did I know…

Okay, so I don’t have a billion dollars (yet), but I do now have an opportunity – due to the generous trust of YES Prep’s leadership – to build a superlative school.  I still don’t know the neighborhood or the mascot or the names of the 140 sixth-graders who will cross its threshold in August of 2011, but I do know that the 9^th YES Prep school will be a forum for the pursuit of ideas and dreams, a site of investigation

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YES Prep and New Leaders Compete for Facebook Fans

January 07, 2010 by Jeremy Jones

WHO CAN GET 100 FANS FIRST.

YES Prep and New Leaders for New Schools have created a first of its kind partnership in education reform! YES Prep is the Houston-based public charter school network that has sent 100% of its graduating seniors to college and New Leaders for New Schools ensures student achievement by attracting and preparing outstanding leaders and supporting the performance of the urban public schools they lead at scale. Both of these organizations are leaders in educational change and produce some of this nation’s most influential educational leaders.

We are excited to announce that YES Prep and New Leaders for New Schools have teamed up in an equally ambitious and challenging competition: a contest to see who can increase their Facebook fan page membership by 100 the

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