Teacher Development
The secret to YES Prep's success is no secret: It's people, people, people. But administrators here don't just conjure a staff of already excellent educators and then kick back and rest; they find people with passion, smarts, and potential and help them become leaders. Through weekly professional development, one-on-one sessions with the dean of instruction, and built-in time for teamwork, everyone here is working toward ever better instruction. And no one is working alone.
History teacher and high school principal Bryan Reed works to help himself and fellow teachers continually improve.
Credit: Craig Brandenburg
YES was founded by teachers. I'm a teacher. We're all teachers. And we wanted to create an organization that was going to be a good place for teachers to work, where teachers can have a voice in how the school is run, where every decision was made in the interest of what's going to be great for kids and teachers.
-- Chris Barbic, YES Prep founder
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