Immersed in this arrangement as if
in a rocketship, visitors are sent plunging through an imagined deep space.
In addition, no school
in Rocketship's entire history has ever expelled a student (Rocketship Schools 2016a).
Students
in Rocketship schools receive a challenging, college prep curriculum during an expanded school day (8 a.m. to 4 pm.).
The downtown San Jose Tamien site should have been the first of the 20 to open, however, strong community opposition led to a number of defeats culminating
in Rocketship withdrawing their Tamien application.
The school board questioned Rocketship CEO Preston Smith, who had claimed there were 500 students on a waiting list to enroll
in Rocketship schools.
The Morgan Hill community rallied against two proposed charter schools last year, resulting
in Rocketship pulling their application, and Navigator being denied by the County Office of Education.
The Charter Growth Fund has a sizable interest
in Rocketship.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel publicized a flyer that resulted
in Rocketship's first school being shy of it's rather meager enrollment targets.
She enjoys being the instructional leader for the students, teachers and families
in Rocketship and takes pride in educating our young learners.
Everyone loves a good lone - genius story: Archimedes hunched in a bathtub, waiting for his Eureka moment; Steve Jobs tinkering with computer prototypes in his garage; Elon Musk smashing space - travel paradigms
in his rocketship hangar.
Not exact matches
Whether you're a little unknown startup nobody ever heard of, or a hotshot
rocketship making headlines
in the techpress, figuring out which candidates to hire is really difficult.
After 10 years with JustFab, Evan was recruited by and joined another
rocketship subscription commerce company called ThriveMarket.com as their CMO
in charge of all things digital, growth and acquisition with over $ 100M
in revenue being generated.
Mouse
In My Toolbox from
Rocketship Run 13.
Take a spin on the Sunny Day Carousel, or hop
in a trash can
rocketship and join Oscar on a space mission that is sure to make your kiddos giggle.
The two included Little People characters can enjoy a spinning
rocketship ride, zoom down the curvy slide
in a fast car or ride the spinning teacups.
Examples, if you can stand them, include
Rocketship X-M, The Phantom Planet, and exactly one other cosmic Earth - uber - alles flick for each particle
in the known universe.
Todd Edwards appears on the absolutely immaculate «Fragments of Time,» with its side chained steel guitars and neon -
rocketships -
in - flight instrumental section.
Grand Jury Award: Austin Chick, Girls Against Boys Best Feature: Tom O'Brien, Fairhaven Best Documentary: Matthew Heineman & Susan Fromke, Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare Best Animation: Brian Lye, Callum Paterson and Nathan Gilliss, Peach Juice Best Short Comedy: Todd Sklar, 92 ′ Skybox Alonzo Mourning Rookie Card Best Short Drama: Paul Grellong, Tracer Gun Audience Choice — Documentary: Ramona Diaz, Don't Stop Believing: Every Man's Journey Audience Choice — Feature: Eric Kissack, Missed Connections Best Screenplay: Steve Lucas for La Mujer (Thriller) Best NH Documentary: Michael Venn and Mark Dole,
In Danger of Being Discovered Best NH Performance: Jace McLean for 3 Days of Normal New Hampshire Film of the Year: Alfred Thomas Catalfo,
Rocketship Van McLeod Award: Mike O'Malley
It's not just ships zapping each other with lasers
in the dark void of space; there's a caterpillar surface transport crawling over the rocky volcanic moonscape, a shoot - out with a fleet of flying saucers, a mind - controlled assassin sabotaging a human
rocketship and of course the alien assault on Earth landmarks
in the final battle.
Rocketship Education, one of the promising school models detailed
in the article, is known for an innovative staffing model.
Additional images of the Denver School of Science and Technology, High Tech High
in San Diego,
Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary School
in San Jose, and School of One
in New York City.
Markus discusses the «
Rocketship Hybrid School Model» at
Rocketship Education and the results and implications of an independent study that showed improvements
in math scores for students who had access to online math instruction.
As a major aspect of a school model, it is more readily associated with charter schools, such as Summit Public Schools and
Rocketship in Silicon Valley.
One unfortunate fact is that there hasn't yet been any sharing of success strategies with San Jose Unified School District (SJUSD),
in which
Rocketship resides, something
Rocketship says they are open to, «but have not been approached.»
Rocketship schools have made it their mission to close the achievement gap that holds back students
in under - served communities.
As examples, he points to
Rocketship, a group of schools
in California serving low - income students that credits their high achievement
in part to a daily two - hour computer lab; Carpe Diem, a top math performer
in Arizona; and Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School, a Cincinnati school that converted to a technology focus and saw its graduation rate soar from 21 percent to more than 95 percent.
Porter could see that
Rocketship was doing something different, so he invited them
in.
Last week
Rocketship Education announced the results of an independent 16 - week study by SRI International that showed that students who had greater access to online instruction
in math, specifically a learning program called Dreambox Learning, achieved significant gains
in mathematics scores.
I know
Rocketship is keen to provide tours to interested parties (contact
[email protected]), and they have participated
in «white papers» aimed at assisting districts and charters that want to share best practices.
Richard Whitmire is author of On the
Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools Are Pushing the Envelope, which chronicles the rise of leading charter school network
Rocketship and the impact of high - performing charter schools
in Denver, Spring Branch, and other cities across the country.
One of those is a network of free, public charter schools
in San Jose, California, called
Rocketship Education, who just this week crossed a very important milestone.
They practice what they call the «
Rocketship Hybrid School Model,» which combines traditional classroom instruction with individualized instruction through online technology and tutors
in a «Learning Lab.»
Rocketship leaders will fix a disconnect they see between what happens
in the online learning lab and the classroom, to give teachers more control over the students» digital learning and further individualize the teaching.
Jonathan Schorr and Deborah McGriff wrote about
Rocketship in the Summer 2011 issue of Ed Next.
Now,
in his latest book, On the
Rocketship, he turns his attention to «how top charter schools are pushing the envelope.»
Through dozens of short chapters he tells the story of the meteoric growth of the
Rocketship network of charter schools, known as a leader
in «blended learning,» along with the trials and tribulations of other charter chains.
Although some charter school operators, such as
Rocketship Education and KIPP Empower, as well as some school districts, like Riverside School District, have created stellar blended - learning models, the most advanced school districts
in California
in online and blended learning have seen their efforts frustrated and curtailed.
In the video, leaders from
Rocketship and School of One discuss the advantages of digital learning while sharing their concerns about California laws and union regulations that have limited the role of online learning.
On Top of the News Charter School Forges Ahead with Expansion Wall Street Journal 7/14/11 Behind the Headline Future Schools Education Next Summer 2011
Rocketship Education hopes to open 20 additional hybrid schools
in California by 2017, a plan opposed by the local union and school district.
As for the voices included
in the story, six of the nine
Rocketship sources contacted me to express their frustration over how NPR's blogger mischaracterized their comments (more on that below).
He lives
in San Jose with his wife and two children who attend
Rocketship Fuerza Community Prep.
The voice of parents who drove over 100 miles every day to send their children to
Rocketship, then organized parents to open a
Rocketship school
in their own community?
Author Bio: Preston Smith is Co-Founder & CEO of
Rocketship Education, a non-profit network of public elementary charter schools serving low - income communities
in California, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C..
Rocketship was one of the pioneers of personalized learning
in public education nearly a decade ago.
Furthermore, this Harvard study clearly states «
Rocketship students spent an average of 44 minutes per week
in the weeks they used DreamBox.»
Preston Smith is Co-Founder & CEO of
Rocketship Education, a non-profit network of public elementary charter schools serving low - income communities
in California, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C..
Which means, a charter operator with campuses
in multiple states, like KIPP, Uncommon Schools, Achievement First, or
Rocketship Education, can not freely move a teacher or school leader between their schools
in various states.
What's your take on
Rocketship since you left and what do you think we'll see from it
in the future?
Danner: With Zeal, our inspiration was the incredible results we saw
in tutoring at
Rocketship in our first few years, results validated by a lot of academic research showing how powerful it can be.
Rocketship is extremely strong
in culture, especially getting parents involved
in their children's education.