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The Top Blogs on YES Prep’s The Answer for 2010

December 29, 2010 by Jeremy Jones

The holiday season and the new year always bring about some reflective nostalgia that compels us to think about the best and worst from the previous 360 or so days and ponder what life will be like in the upcoming year. There are some very definite and measurable ways that YES Prep will be changing in the next year that get this author very excited and will push me and my team to perform at levels beyond what we have ever operated. For starters, we will officially enroll our 5,000th student. That is halfway to our goal of serving 10,000 students in the Houston area. Next, we will be sending 100% of our students to college from three fully grown YES Prep campuses in three very different Houston neighborhoods. Southwest joins Southeast, our flagship campus, and North Central as a

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Five Tips for Applying to our First Priority Teacher Application Deadline

November 22, 2010 by Jeremy Jones

Applications to work at YES Prep have increased significantly this year over last. To give you some context, last year, we had about 1,600 applications to join our team. This year, upon writing this blog post, we already have close to 800 and we haven’t even hit the busy time of year yet. With such an increase in application numbers, we are able to be even more selective in our choices for hiring teachers. Better teachers means we will be able to serve our students better and increase our pace to transform Houston.

In the coming school year (2011-2012), YES Prep will be growing enormously. We will have six full grade levels for which to hire great teachers and we are adding a new campus. There will be opportunities to teach and lead in every content area and grade level. If

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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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How YES Prep is becoming the best place in the country to grow as an educational leader

September 01, 2010 by Bill Durbin

YES Prep Public Schoolsstrives to be the best place in the nation to develop and support educational leaders. To this end, we have developed three key leadership development opportunities. First, we have implemented a Leadership Cohort Training Model that meets three times throughout the year to discuss and practice goal-setting, team development, meeting facilitation, and prioritization of competing demands. This cohort is for new team leaders with roles such as grade level chair, dean of students, dean of instruction, student support counselor, content specialist, course leader, or operations manager. Eighty of YES Prep’s current leaders attended the two-day introduction session this summer, and they will receive another day in the fall and one in spring. These follow-up days

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