Raise Your Hand Texas funds the tuition expenses for a selective group of campus leaders from Houston-area school districts to participate in REEP at Rice University. The Rice University Education Entrepreneurship Program is for current and aspiring school leaders in the Houston area who want to dramatically impact public education at a deeper, more systemic level. This unique program combines a world-class business school education with an innovative educational leadership curriculum that results in transformative experiences for local K-12 leaders.

1. RYHT
REEP
Partnership
Bridging the Gap
Between Business
and Education

2. leadership
problem-solving
entrepreneurship
real-world application
The Rice University Education
Entrepreneurship Program

3. What is REEP?
The Rice University Education Entrepreneurship
Program is for current and aspiring school
leaders in the Houston area who want to
dramatically impact public education at a
deeper, more systemic level.
This unique program combines a world-class
business school education with an innovative
educational leadership curriculum that results in
transformative experiences for local K-12
leaders.

4. What makes it different?
 The combination of business school faculty with
national education entrepreneurs
 The introduction of best business practices into
the educators’ world, including the use of data,
finance, marketing and systems management

5. What does RYHT provide?
RYHT funds the tuition expenses for a selective
group of campus leaders from Houston-area
school districts to participate in the following
programs:
 REEP Business Fellowship for School Leaders, a
business training fellowship for educators with
Masters degrees
 REEP Summer Institute for School Leaders, 2-and-
a-half week sessions focused on leadership

6. Why REEP?
RYHT knows that a strong principal is a crucial
component in school change, success, and
improvement.
By investing in REEP, RYHT is giving principals a
new set of tools, a new framework and an
extended network— all things that will move
them forward to impact education one school
at a time.
In partnership, REEP and RYHT are supporting
Texas educational leaders in a meaningful way.

7. An overview
of the
curriculum
Which can be broken
down into three main
components

8. Spring/Business
 Among the topics covered in this semester are
managerial use of data, change management,
finance, marketing, process management, and
leadership.
 Courses provide a business framework through
an educational lens so that educators can make
connections with how it might play out in their
own campus settings.

9. Summer Institute
100 hours of workshops, sessions, and trainings in
3 main areas:
 Application of leadership: Coursework addresses
each candidate’s personal leadership style
 Problem-solving: Students learn problem-solving
principles and apply them to education issues
 Entrepreneurship: Real world application of
entrepreneurial principles as practicum is
launched

10. Fall/Practicum
 After the summer institute, students enter the core of
the practicum and participate in a forum.
 The forum is a peer mentoring session where students
come together to discuss education issues as well as
their own leadership growth.
 Students complete several action-oriented
assignments, including school visits where they
observe best practices, interview staff and follow up
with written reflections.
 Students begin analyzing their own educational
worlds, political landscapes and the communities
they are serving.

11. Other aspects of the curriculum
 Students are assessed through leadership
personality tests.
 Students then go through several mentoring
sessions with a field advisor. Together, they work
on a formal leadership development plan. The
plan allows students to identify their leadership
potential and track their growth.
 Students also launch a high-stakes data
innovation project to apply what they’ve
learned to an authentic need at their campus.

12. The Personal Leadership Plan
 Offers a 360 degree student leadership analysis
combining personal insights with input from a
colleague, a supervisor, and an outside party
 Provides feedback on students’ acquisition of
the program’s leadership competencies
 Presents students with an opportunity for
reflection and growth

13. The Innovation Project
 A student-driven project that lets participants
envision an innovative change they hope to
bring to a real world setting
 A chance to have an immediate impact on
education

14. Who should apply?
 Educators who are looking for a non-traditional
experience
 Educators who want to find new solutions to the
issues affecting public education today
 Educators who are passionate about pushing
the limits to create effective learning
environments for their students
 Educators from across Houston who are working
in independent school districts or charter
organizations

15. the next step in
education
Our students have a sense of
urgency in figuring out

16. What impact has the RYHT REEP
Partnership had?
 REEP and RYHT have set ambitious goals to create tangible
outcomes that impact students.
 Educators who were selected from the same district and
sponsored by RYHT report talking, collaborating and sharing
best practices with each other more in the past six months than
in previous years. The result has been stronger learning
environments for students.
 The innovation projects have pushed school leaders to think
critically and creatively about how to use fewer resources in
the most efficient and effective way.
 REEP is developing principals to become a new core of
thought leaders in the Houston area. Graduates of the
program are being promoted to campus and district
leadership positions soon after attending.

17. “Neverdoubtthatasmallgroupof
thoughtful,committedcitizenscanchange
theworld.Indeed,itistheonlythingthat
everhas.”
Margaret Mead