Youth Empowerment School
8251 Fontaine St.
Oakland, CA 94605 (Map & Directions)
510-879-8877
Claude Jenkins, Principal
claude.jenkins@ousd.k12.ca.us
http://www.youthempowermentschool.org
NEW: Support Our Students!
Help YES teachers fill classrooms with the resources their students need to succeed! Through DonorsChoose, you can help fund specific materials and have an immediate impact. You'll not only receive a copy of the receipt for the materials, but also get thank-you letters from the kids themselves! What's more, you can "Double Your Impact" thanks to matching funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Check out our proposals here:
- Literature and Creative Writing: New Technology to Boost Engagement and Improve Assessment!
- College Prep Advisory Course: 20 copies of The Official SAT Study Guide for the New SAT
- Tools for our Math scholars: Sharpie markers, calculators, write-and-wipe graphing boards, dice sets, and algebra games and cards
YES is a school where students, staff and community have significant roles in the governance, planning, decision making, advising and processes of continual improvement that is embedded in the culture. It is a place where all people feel safe to commonly reflect on and challenge current practices, promote the expectation of constant learning for everyone, and incorporate the valued input of the multitude of cultures and lenses in our school family. This principle will allow students and family members to see the power of their communal input and of each others' ideas and strengths, while pushing us forward at all times. Students will feel supported and successful as they apply their learned skills to empowerment projects in the local area that will challenge them, enhance literacy and numeracy skills, develop critical thinking habits, set goals, time lines and benchmarks and prepare them for a successful post-secondary experience as they will have learned the techniques necessary to achieve their goals.
Families are expected to be involved in the development of their children's educational plan, observation of teaching practices and student work, and design of the school. It is with this web of support that we will build the YES family necessary for us to promote the strong sense of satisfaction that comes from community awareness coupled with empowerment. It is with these principles that necessary awareness and change will occur in our community.
OUR MISSION
The community of Youth Empowerment School applies the principles of Personal and Academic Empowerment, Social Empowerment, and the development of Critical Communication and Critical Consciousness to create a healthy learning community that fulfills our vision and evolves positive social change.