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Thank you Goodman Financial Company
for providing the funds for uniforms for both our Yellowstone Academy basketball team and Yellow Fusion dance team and for helping send the girls to summer dance camp!

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Yellowstone Academy relies on in-kind donations to help the school keep its costs down. See our wish list .

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Meet Natasha Ford

Natasha Ford is the lead PreK-3 teacher sharing a classroom with Kortnie Powe. Natasha graduated from Prarie View A&M University in 2001 with a degree in psychology and a sociology minor. She has worked as an associate teacher for HISD and as a GED/ESL instructor for Houston Community College and volunteered in public school classrooms for several years. Learn more...
Meet Kortnie Powe

Kortnie Powe is a PreK-3 aid in the classroom with Natasha Ford. Kortnie is currently pursuing her undergraduate degree and is in her second year at Yellowstone Academy. She says she enjoys working at Yellowstone "because it provides me an opportunity to give back to the community in which I was raised." Learn more...
Meet Melissa Matteson

Melissa Matteson is a PreK-3 teacher in the classroom with aide Donna Fussell. Melissa graduated from the University of Texas in 2009 with a degree in education and a business minor. Her job search took her to many places, but she says she "kept coming back to Yellowstone." Melissa appreciates the camaraderie of the Yellowstone faculty and looks forward to many years of teaching to come. Learn more...
Meet Donna Fussell

Donna Fussell is a PreK-3 aide in the classroom with Melissa Matteson. Donna has been teaching at Yellowstone since its inception and has a son who attended Yellowstone Academy in PreK-3 and 4. Donna and her husband attend Mt. Corinth Missionary Baptist Church. Learn more...