Sentences with phrase «when rocketship»

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.

When Rocketship Mateo Sheedy moved into our neighborhood, we welcomed it and were excited about the new educational opportunities and healthy competition.

It's a troubling trend when Rocketship claims to be in the top 5 % of low income schools, and yet scores right at average in reading and writing for low income students.

Not exact matches

But not many Midwestern business people have had that rocketship growth experience; the visceral sense of the pressure and speed of g - forces when you take a $ 1 million startup and turn it into a $ 1 billion - plus business.

Whenever we had to slow for a turn or pull up at a traffic light, the engine threatened to die, but when that Chevy hit the open road with the engine wide open, it felt like we were strapped to a rocketship blasting off for Planet Punani.

Michael Horn: When you founded Rocketship Education, a school network, you thought a lot about the human capital challenges and opportunities in education gleaned from your own time as a teacher and in technology.

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

For a book, I was looking for a small charter group that wanted to big fast and when I asked around, several people pointed me to Rocketship.

Rocketship was denied permission to open a school in Morgan Hill and withdrew their appeal to the county when it became clear they did not have sufficient votes.

Rocketship's expansion agenda comes at a time when online learning is exploding and as President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are pushing for more high - quality charters to open nationally.

When the parent pressed MySchoolDC for help, she says she was told that Rocketship was giving all families the chance to enroll in their Ward 7 and 8 campuses.

At the Rocketship chain of charter schools, for instance, administrators must manually update at least five databases to keep their education software running smoothly when a child transfers from one teacher to another, said Charlie Bufalino, a Rocketship executive.

«Rocketship has demonstrated that when schools offer every student access to a strong teacher and engaging instruction tailored to their individual needs, they can revolutionize education as we know it.»

While the crux of Rocketship's published mission — creating alternative, high - quality education choices for vulnerable students — is credited to Father Mateo Sheedy, pastor of San Jose's Sacred Heart Parish, who in 1999 began questioning the low performance rates of students in his parish, Rocketship began in earnest in 2006, when Father Sheedy's congregation set off to pursue his mission of improving outcomes for students in San Jose alongside John Danner and Preston Smith.

When listening to Laurie Berkner's «Rocketship Run,» one of the children's songs that comes with the tablet, audio came through loud and clear.

Whereas when I was growing up in New York, I'd scan the library shelves looking for a small yellow sticker on the lower spine of a book, with a red rocketship - in - atom icon.

I, too, looked for the little rocketship when at the library or at the bookstore.