1. Education & Business
2 sides of starting & growing
a successful Chinese
Immersion charter school

2. • (insert cute student pics - for overview)
– (overview - say below)
– great year coming up - new faces, new spaces
– start with a little history about Yu Ying
– learned
– changes for this year
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3. Nurturing Excellence
• Our Model: International
Baccalaureate with Chinese
Immersion
• Our Goal: Provide DC (and our
children) with a world class
education
• PreK 4 - 4th grade growing to
8th grade

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5. 4 Years of Rapid Growth
• 2008-9
130 Students, 28 Full time staff
• 2009-10
198 Students, 35 Full time staff
• 2010-11
240 Students, 40 Full time staff
great 1st year testing results
• 2011-12
365 Students, 55 Full time staff
$6m+ budget
Renovated & purchased a 40,000
square foot building

6. Economics
INCOME
• Marketing - get the students in: $3000 for facility & $9000
per student
• Development (grants) - don’t leave any money on the
table: Startup grants, Title II, FLAP
• Programs - Aftercare: develop programs that can make $
and supplement your budget.
EXPENSE: STAFF, Facility, Student
NET INCOME: savings for a building, rainy day, program
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7. Structure
Business Side:
Marketing,
Raising Money,
Managing Money,
Buying & Managing the Facility,
Working with support organizations
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8. Yu Ying
Demographics
• Race: 47% African American, 30%
Caucasian, 18% Asian, 5% Hispanic
• 23% FARMS
• Children from all over the city but 50%
from adjacent wards
• Accept students until 2nd Grade, 8%
attrition
• 2012-13: 685 applications for 48 spots
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10. Facilities Financing
(millions)
Sources:
$ 1 down payment
$ 1 grant
$10.275 construction loan -> Govt Bonds
$ 2.7 gap financing from CSDC & OSSE
$ .225m+ for other costs
$15.2 total costs (approx)
Uses: 7.1 in purchase price. 8.1+ in
renovation & development
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11. Community Support
• Staff & Students
• Yu Ying Parent Association
• Yu Ying Board
• Public Charter School Board
• OSSE
• Building Hope & CSDC
• Other organizations:
FOCUS, Association, OAPIA

12. Educational Model
Collins (2001) lists the following as steps organizations
need to go through to turn from good to great
• Getting the Right People “on the bus”
• Confronting the brutal facts
• Developed a Hedgehog Concept
• Created a Stop Doing List
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13. Staffing
• Getting the right people on the bus
• Passion
• Knowledge
• Flexibility
• Hard working
• Open to change
• Creating a pipeline of excellent staff
• Developing supportive school culture
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14. “Hedgehog Concept”
We developed our “1 big
thing” by answering the
following questions:
• What can we the best in
the world at?
• What can we afford?
• What do I/my staff care
passionately about?
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15. Critical Look
• When we ripped off the bandaid - what did
we find?
• Wrong people
• Staff needed training
• Curriculum was in need of updating
• School culture
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16. Education Summit
• Invite all staff members
• Off site
• Provide food
• Make lots of lists
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17. Yu Ying 2012
We have developed the “magic momentum”
• Staffing
• Curriculum
• Assessment
• Culture
• More great things to come!
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18. (insert pics - say great staff, amazing community &
the resources to get stuff done!
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19. What we have accomplished
• Built a school that is in its 4th year
• Success in the CAS and growth school wide
• The only Chinese / English Immersion School in DC
• Standardization of Curriculum.
• A great Program of Inquiry and history of
implementation
• An amazing Aftercare program
• A school that is well-resourced & financially secure
• A permanent home with acres to explore & room to
expand
• AN AMAZING TEAM!!
• A really involved Community
• Budding partnerships to continue to help support the 19
school

20. What we have learned
• Planning & Collaboration!
• Get the right staff in and keep them
• 25/50 was a lot of students so now
12-18/36
• Challenging Model!
• Academic summer program
• Standards, testing & alignment are
critical
• Great interest in our program
• Our program needs to be supported at
home
• Save every penny for the building

21. Looking to the Future
• PreK 3 Full
Immersion
• Creating a Joint
Middle High School
• Opening a second
Yu Ying in DC
• Sharing resources
with other schools
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22. Thank you &
Questions
Maquita Alexander
Mary Shaffner
info@washingtonyu
ying.org
202.635.1950
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