Sentences with phrase «rocketship education»

The following is a calculation of what the absolute bare minimum Rocketship Education budget must be.

For Preston Smith, a co-founder of Rocketship Education, the San Jose - based charter network that runs the school, that computer lab exemplifies what the chain is good at: harnessing technology to teach at - risk students.

Rocketship Education, which focuses on a hybrid model and operates mainly in the Silicon Valley area, is also exploring opportunities for expansion in Tennessee and Milwaukee.

Founded in 2006 by John Danner and Preston Smith in San Jose, Calif., Rocketship Education is building a national network of high - performing urban college preparatory elementary charter schools whose mission is to eliminate the achievement gap.

LOS ANGELES - The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation has awarded $ 1 million to Rocketship Education, a leading network of innovative K - 5 public charter schools, the foundation announced today.

Rocketship proposes that its model — dubbed «blended learning» for its combination of in - person and computerized instruction — can cut costs while raising low - income students» test scores (Rocketship Education 2011).

Kelun Zhang served as Director of Growth and National Expansion for Rocketship Education during The Broad Residency.

The book includes great advice from many Aspire blended learning teachers, and shares key insights from blended learning leaders across the country, including folks at the KIPP Foundation, Summit Public Schools, Rocketship Education, E. L. Haynes Public Charter School, the Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, Cornerstone Charter Schools (Detroit), Highline Public Schools (Washington), Mastery Schools and FirstLine Schools.

Rocketship Education, a national, non-profit elementary charter school network, is on the cutting edge of school innovation with a hybrid school model and an operational approach that combines classroom and online learning to create high - performing low income elementary schools.

Most recently I have been teaching transitional kindergarten for Rocketship Education and am consistently impressed by my young students» astute observations and persistence in reaching for their infinite potential.

As the co-founder and CEO of Rocketship Education, John Danner says Rocketship was built on the idea that «there would be less, not more, money in public education over the next 20 years, yet there is a demonstrable need to vastly improve results.

Aylon served as Chief Schools Officer at Rocketship Education; leading the highest performing network of low - income schools in the state of California, designing the academic model and blended learning approach, and growing the network from 3 to 7 schools.

In this report, prepared by Julie Kowal and Dana Brinson for the Center for American Progress, we profile two organizations — the Rocketship Education network of charter schools and the Fairfax County, VA school district — that have redesigned the job of teacher to provide new types of leadership opportunities and let great teachers reach larger numbers of students.

He said Bobb had received a number of contacts from «successful national operators,» including Rocketship Education, which runs several schools in San Jose, Calif..

The acclaimed Rocketship Education schools in San Jose, Calif. use a lab - rotation model, in which students rotate to a learning lab for two hours each day to learn online with paraprofessional supervision.

Rocketship Education, the upstart charter operator that has posted impressive test scores for traditionally struggling students, won approval early Thursday morning to more than triple its charter network by opening 20 new schools in Santa Clara County — the largest single charter - school approval in the state.

While a Broad Resident, Carolyn Davies Lynch served as Senior Director, Systems and Scalability at Rocketship Education.

The county board's approval will bump up the number of children served by Rocketship Education to more than 14,000 students, a size equal to some of the largest school districts in Santa Clara County.

The first came when Rocketship Education, the highly rated California - based charter schools organization, announced it had hired Steven Stolen to guide its entry into the Indianapolis education landscape.

In 2006, former software engineer John Danner co-founded Rocketship Education, a national nonprofit elementary charter school network based in San Jose, Calif., with Preston Smith.

The announcement, made by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), comes as some states are lifting caps on the number of charter schools, and as major charter - management organizations (CMOs) like KIPP and Rocketship Education are receiving federal dollars to expand their programs.

Turner Agassi directly uses taxpayer funds, funneled through Rocketship Education and their secretive affiliate, Launchpad Corporation, to purchase land and build facilities.

Rocketship Education is a private corporation that receives government money to provide a free public education to elementary school children through the state's charter school program.

Rocketship Education has seen declines in its pupil outcomes, both overall, and by numerically significant subgroup (LatinoHispanic), in its other charter schools in Santa Clara County.

Rocketship education model declared «unsound» Alum Rock's board of education voted to deny Rocketship in a packed standing room only board meeting that lasted until late Thursday night.

In addition, California - based Rocketship Education, which did not apply for the first round, said it would in the second round.

In a rare move, Rocketship Education recently admitted that the blended learning flex model is getting poor ratings.

Neil Stone, John Danner (Rocketship Education) and Erik Schoennauer (lobbyist - The Schoennauer Company)-RRB- re: City Surplus Property at 551 Keyes and Bird and W. Virginia

Rocketship Education, a charter management organization recognized nationally for its high - performing blended schools in California, will open its first D.C. school in the fall of 2016.

Mercury News, champion of Charters, criticizes Rocketship The Mercury News, which has written nearly 10 editorials in favor of Rocketship, has just joined a growing media chorus discussing some of the downsides of Rocketship Education.

... Pupils at the nine schools run by the U.S. charter school operator Rocketship Education spend a quarter of their lesson time online, an approach that has provided inspiration for a proposed new academy run by Ark Schools, one of England's largest school chains....

And starting next year, university authorizers expect nationally recognized charter school companies like KIPP and Rocketship Education to take a more active look at opening schools in Michigan.

Jessica Garcia - Kohl, Rocketship Education and Erik Schoennauer (Lobbyist) with Joseph Sánchez and Josúe García Topic: Rocketship

Many schools around the United States have already adopted the rotation model of blended learning, including Rocketship Education, which is a charter public school system for low - income students.

The Silicon Valley Business Journal, for instance, featured a story about the San Jose City Council approving an MOU to build a facility for a new charter school to be operated under Rocketship Education.

An impact study on the use of DreamBox Learning software on student achievement in the Howard County Public School System (HCPSS) and the Rocketship Education charter school network.

Dynasti's commitment to talented people and education spans over 10 years, where she most recently led the Human Resources team for Rocketship Education.

Eric helped launch CSGF's next generation learning practice, supported our investment in Dreambox Learning, and moonlighted at Rocketship Education.

Rocketship Education is at again — pushing into territory where it's not welcome, trying to open a Mt. Diablo Rocketship school.

He adds, «Rocketship Education, a charter school network near San Francisco, with national expansion plans, is reinventing how learning takes place in the classroom, asking its students to spend 25 percent of each day in a «learning lab,» where they work on customized, computer - delivered material.

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Rocketship Education, a chain of charter schools in San Jose, has used technology and block scheduling to lift the scores of English learners far above the state average.

Danner, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who made his fortune with Internet advertising pioneer NetGravity, started Rocketship Education, a charter - school nonprofit, in 2006.

They included schools run by Aspire, Rocketship Education, Summit, Alliance College - Ready Public Schools and KIPP.

Rocketship Education, one of the hottest new chains out of California, says it will watch what happens before it decides whether to apply.

After four years in New Orleans, Ryan had the opportunity to move back to Milwaukee to help found Rocketship Education's first school outside of California as a Founding Assistant Principal.

Rocketship Education, also based in California, recently announced plans to expand to the Milwaukee school system.

Nowadays, when most people hear «Rocketship Education,» they think of the revolution of «blended learning.»

* Disclosure: Bellwether's Strategic Advising team is currently working on a project with Rocketship Education.

Preston Smith co-founded Rocketship Education in San Jose with John Danner in 2006, and is now CEO and president of the organization.