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Teacher Feature: Amanda Rawlings of YES Prep East End

September 05, 2010 by Jeremy Jones

For the past ten years, 100% of YES Prep's graduating seniors have been accepted to top colleges and universities across the country.  The success of our students is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our teachers, a group of individuals from diverse academic and professional backgrounds united by a sense of frustration at the status quo.  We believe that teachers are the single greatest factor determining student achievement.  In our weekly series, the Teacher Feature, we hope to show off our greatest resource: our teachers.

• I grew up all over! My parents moved around a lot so I have lived in Moline, Illinois, Chicago, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, Tennessee, and Orlan
• I attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas!! I graduated in 2007 and studied Biology and Studio

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The 100 Percent Promise: US News & World Report

September 02, 2010 by Jeremy Jones

U.S. News & World Report's most popular issue, "Ranking Best Colleges," includes a two-page feature on YES Prep Public Schools and our college-bound culture: "The 100 Percent Promise." The magazine is on newsstands now, so be sure to pick up a copy to read more about our students, staff and mission to prepare 10,000 college ready students in Houston!

CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE

Excerpts from The "100 Percent Promise"

"In the past 10 years, 100 percent of [YES Prep's] graduates have been accepted to four-year colleges. Marquez was not about to break that track record. 'I'm going to college,' says the freshman at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. 'A lot of my other friends can't say that.'

"The success rate would be remarkable for any public high school, but the

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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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The Khaki Pants: A Story of a YES Prep Parent and her daughter’s new school uniform

August 31, 2010 by Jeremy Jones

My daughter spent the last five years of school with no uniform dress code.  She has never really been “into” clothes. Things don’t have to match or be trendy or even be clean for that matter. I feel like I have dodged a bullet for the last five years. It didn’t even hit me that I would have to worry about her putting up a fight to wear a YES Prep uniform.

Khaki pants and a collared shirt. What was so bad about that? Ok, the button-down shirt. I knew I had to come up with something pretty good for that one to get past her. Who wants to wear a dress shirt in the summer heat?

The first day of summer school approached and she started getting nervous and thinking about reasons not to go to school. Her last ditch effort-- the “boring uniform”

What could I say about the uniform? How

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