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Direct Energy Friends & Family Offer

November 30, 2011 by Brittany Baize

This year Direct Energy has donated $1,500 to sponsor a YES Prep student for the 2011-12 year. In addition, they are offering a special friends and family offer to the YES Prep family and YES Prep supporters. Check out their flyer or click for more details on the friends and family program (use offer code "family" and reference "YESPREP") or here for their pre-paid energy program. For each new enrollment, Direct Energy will donate $25 to YES Prep and an additional $150 for every ten enrollments. Direct Energy is proud to have partnered with us to provide electricity options at affordable rates, and we appreciate their support of our students.

To find out how you can sponsor a YES Prep student, visit YES Prep Scholars Society.

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[Five Reasons to Work at YES Prep] Reason One: Our People are United to do Whatever It Takes

November 13, 2011 by Jason Bernal

Everyone at YES Prep has heard me say over and over again how much I love this organization. The mission to get 100% of our students to graduate from 4-year colleges and universities, the students who work so hard to take hold of that opportunity, the families who support them through seven years of rigorous instruction, and the impact we make on this city have kept me here for over 13 years.

What I left out of that list, what makes me look forward to coming to work every day, and what I believe makes YES Prep the “Best Place to Work” in Houston is the staff that makes the jaw-dropping results possible. I am lucky enough to work with the same like-minded individuals who make this organization what it is today. This consistency, this oneness of purpose, this like-mindedness and

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[Five Reasons to Work at YES Prep] Reason Two: Teaching Excellence!

November 12, 2011 by Nella Garcia

The teaching profession is one of the largest and oldest career options in this country. It has gone through some major shifts and changes over the course of its long history. This makes the work challenging and it also provides us with an environment that allows for us to problem solve and innovate when it comes to preparing teachers to teach our students. This question of how to teach teachers to teach is on the front stage of education as many schools are thinking about new talent.

At YES Prep, we have been working on this question for a number of years. It’s an area in which we pride ourselves. In order for our students to have the best education, our teachers must also have access to professional learning that sets them up for success. And that’s just the beginning. In

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[Five Reasons to Work at YES Prep] Reason Three: Alumni Make an Impact

November 11, 2011 by Lilia Pineda

Ms. Pineda with 7th grade students during a field trip to the Museum of Natural Science! Walking off a yellow school bus into a parking lot and seeing modular buildings as classrooms was confusing to the sixth grade version of myself. I was not totally sure where my mother had sent me for middle school and why we did not have a building for a school. I had no idea that I was walking into the place where many doors would open for me throughout the years. YES Prep Public Schools provides an excellent education for low-income Houstonians, and since 1998 the dedication that teachers pour into their work has translated into 100% of all graduating seniors being accepted into a 4-year college or university.

I never understood how hard my teachers were working to provide me with the education that would get me to college. I had no idea that they stayed up late at nights

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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