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Rachel Yanof started the Phoenix Collegiate Academy with the express intent to get all the students to college. I hope you enjoy this interview, as I sure did.

• First time I confronted the idea that kids could go to a college or not.
• Trusting the system could make it so the kids don’t get what they need.
• Building Excellent Schools
• 97% receiving free and reduced lunch. 90%+ minority
• Find families through being in their area
• Every parent has dreams for their child.
• Homework
• Overcommunicate
• Parents need to be involved in education, active participant.
• Mandatory parent orientation, come to us or we will come to you because it is that important that you are part of the team.
• Homework is assigned every night.
• Not a secret what is happening in school.
• Perseverance, respect, integrity, discipline, endurance. PRIDE Report - Tracking positive and negative consequences at school.
• Parents come in every quarter for conferences. 100% participation in conferences.
• Flipped model in the high school.
• Communication-focus in lower grades.

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