KIPP DREAM Prep | KIPP Houston

Overview

KIPP DREAM Preparatory opened in 2006 to serve students from the North side of Houston. Olive Moore is DREAM's School Leader.

DREAM's student population is 67% Hispanic, 32% African-American, 1% Caucasian, and 95% low income. DREAM serves the North side ZIP codes of 77009, 77016, 77022, 77037, 77076, and 77093.

Academics

At KIPP DREAM Preparatory, the leadership team works closely with other professional in the field to provide a rigorous, comprehensive, and developmentally appropriate curriculum to the students at all grade levels. Lessons are designed around college-readiness and national standards in literacy, math, science, and social studies. A hands-on approach that guides students towards self-discovery and investigation coupled with rigorous questioning and multiple types of instruction allows students to invest themselves fully in their learning and academic growth. DREAM works closely with Rice University through the Rice School Literacy and Culture Project to help students develop their proficiency in reading and writing beginning at a very early age. Teachers receive on-going professional development and feedback from professionals in all areas to support them with best-practice and differentiation strategies to ensure that all of DREAM's students are growing as learners and reaching their highest potential.

The Whole Child

Fostering the development of the whole child is of utmost importance at KIPP DREAM Prep. Students are supported in their understanding of DREAM's core values of honor, excellence, and commitment by lessons from their classroom teachers and weekly instruction from the Dean of Culture in each of these core areas. Students are offered opportunities to help each other grow as respectful, committed members of their classroom communities, the DREAM community, and the world at large. Each year students have the opportunity to participate in local projects such as local hunger initiatives and more global initiatives such as Pennies for Peace. The goal at KIPP DREAM Prep is for each "DREAMster" to blossom not only in their academics but in their relationships to each other and the world.

Spanish Language

To prepare students to function in a global society, DREAM has committed to providing second-language instruction in Spanish to all of the "DREAMsters." Beginning in PreK, all students, regardless of background, are fully immersed in Spanish and are guided to become fully functional in a second language. All students receive daily Spanish instruction from faculty members who are well versed in a wide variety of instructional techniques. Consequently, students develop their fluency skills in reading, writing, and conversation in Spanish as well as English.

Culture

Mission

The KIPP DREAM Prep team and family collaborates to provide a child-centered environment that develops creative, responsible, self-sufficient, life-long learners. We commit to rigorous, differentiated instruction that will allow all children to become self-directed learners, overcome obstacles, and reach their maximum potential as they climb the mountain to and through college.

Values

DREAM of HONOR
... the possibilities
... through giving back
... our school world, community, self. and others
... unity and diversity
... with compassion
... through gratitude and appreciation

DREAM of EXCELLENCE
... limitless pathways
... creative expression
... exploring and discovering
... designing and creating
... imagining solutions
... adventurous and curious
... in character
... in lifelong learning

DREAM of COMMITMENT
... to our team and family
... to who we are and who we can be
... to make a difference
... to try new things
... to keeping promises
... to facing challenges with courage