Sentences with phrase «on rocketship»

, they «spent 2017 on a rocketship strapped to a missile strapped to an off - brand roman candle made of pure gains.»

Captain Olimar is off on a rocketship, and ecstatic with the view... but something happens... and the spaceman crash lands on a strange new world (again) in Hey!

Richard Whitmire is author of the coming, On the Rocketship: How High Performing Charters Schools are Pushing the Envelope.

The approach we used calculates the absolute bare minimum dollar values for each portion of the budget, based on Rocketship's budget breakdown and its reporting of top donors and the amount categories they fell into.

Then, based on Rocketship's budget breakdown, we can calculate that the bare minimum state funding is $ 52,800,000, the bare minimum federal funding is $ 7,260,000, and the bare minimum «other local revenue» funding is $ 660,000 (Rocketship Schools 2016b).

The donors listed on Rocketship's website include mostly individual and collective venture capitalists and non-profit organizations.

The report includes profiles on Rocketship Mateo Sheedy: Top elementary school in the region for Latino API and Aspire Phoenix Academy: Fourth highest - performing high school in the region for % of Latino students who graduate in 4 years eligible for a state university.

Lafer reports that «Tim Sheehy, president of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, sits on Rocketship's board, and the association raised $ 2.5 million in private contributions to help make Rocketship the first national charter chain operating in the city.»

This review is from: On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools are Pushing the Envelope (Kindle Edition) I learned an enormous amount from reading Richard Whitmire's On The Rocketship.

Mike Petrilli interviews me about On the Rocketship.

In San Jose, NBC's education program «Class Action» recorded and aired a segment on the Rocketship Los Suenos charter school, and in Sacramento, CBS 13 and Univisión KUVS aired a story on the growth of charters in the Northern California region.

Real Clear Education commentary by Andrew J. Rotherham, a partner at Bellwether Education, & Richard Whitmire, author of On the Rocketship: How Top Charters are Pushing the Envelope

Only 11 out of the 273 signatures on the Rocketship petition could be verified.

Board President Rudy Rodriguez asked why none of the families on Rocketship's waiting list were able to speak to the board during the public commentary, and only 11 were able to sign the petition.

Past principal names are listed in each School Accountability Report Card (also available on Rocketship's website).

Forbes» Nick Morrison on Rocketship's technology over-dependence.

Current principal names are listed on Rocketship's website.

Ms. Ravitch has written quite a bit on Rocketship, you can read her comments and those of her followers here: http://dianeravitch.net/?s=rocketship.

Join us on June 18th for breakfast with Richard Whitmire, a former USA Today editorial writer, to talk about his upcoming book, On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools are Pushing the Envelope.

On the Rocketship is a powerful story that shines a spotlight on the importance of quality educational options.

At the November 19th, 2013 City Hall Hearing on Rocketship Tamien, community members discussed John Danner's concept of «Minimum Viable Instruction ``, the foundation upon which he hopes to grab a chunk of the $ 4trillion education market with his for profit software company, Zeal.

His latest book, On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools Are Pushing the Envelope (Jossey - Bass, 2014), follows leading charter school network Rocketship through a challenging school year to discover the key factors in its success and explore the ongoing challenges to its expansion.

Richard Whitmire is the author of «The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation's Worst School District» and the forthcoming «On the Rocketship,» about high - performing charter schools.

On June 26 at 4 pm, the Fordham Institute will host a panel to discuss Richard Whitmire's new book, On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools are Pushing the Envelope.

What's your take on Rocketship since you left and what do you think we'll see from it in the future?

Now, in his latest book, On the Rocketship, he turns his attention to «how top charter schools are pushing the envelope.»

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.

While Facebook has been on a rocketship of fiscal growth, the userbase of Twitter has remained largely stagnant over the past couple of years.

Not exact matches

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.

After we had created a Princess castle and a Rocketship together, I then realised that this would be a great craft activity that she could do on her own.

Todd Edwards appears on the absolutely immaculate «Fragments of Time,» with its side chained steel guitars and neon - rocketships - in - flight instrumental section.

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.

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.

Online and blended learning have the potential to dramatically transform our education system by being able to individualize for each student's distinct learning needs (just look at the results from Carpe Diem, KIPP Empower, or Rocketship Education), but whether it does so will have a lot to do with policy — whether we change the incentives and focus not on merely serving students and micro-managing the inputs, but instead focusing on the student outcomes and leaving behind an antiquated factory - model system for a student - centric one.

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).

KIPP and Rocketship Education (see «Future Schools») have also signed on.

These approaches suggest innovations that aren't being batted about by opinion - makers yet, such as redesigning jobs to concentrate top teachers» time on instruction, putting star teachers fully in charge of multiple classrooms, and using technology in combination with in - person reach extension (for one example, learn about Rocketship Education here).

Hastings also supports Rocketship Education, which blends adaptive learning on computers with teacher - led instruction.

Rocketship also participated in a series of foundation - funded case studies on blended learning, conducted by FSG and released in 2012.

Innovating Toward Sustainability: How Computer Labs Can Enable New Staffing Structures, and New Savings Using wage and staffing data from states, authors Marguerite Roza and Suzanne Simburg project the financial and staffing implications of one innovative school model (the Rocketship lab rotation) to highlight potential impacts on the schooling workforce...

On that first hot and muggy day at Rocketship, we struggled through sweat and tears to figure out how to make the rotational model work — and as long as we exist, we will continue to innovate.

Rocketship is transforming elementary public education with strong academic results, while operating its schools solely on traditional public funding.

The independent study conducted by SRI, Evaluation of Rocketship Education's Use of DreamBox Learning Online Mathematics Program, was commissioned by Rocketship to measure the impact of online math learning on its students» academic growth in Learning Lab, a key component of the Rocketship Hybrid School Model.

Based on its unique Rocketship Hybrid School Model, Rocketship schools focus on exceptional teaching, leadership development, individualized instruction and deep parental involvement.

A key ingredient to the Rocketship Hybrid School Model's success is Learning Lab, in which students each day spend one - on - one time on computers utilizing adaptive, online programs to master reading and math skills.

First - of - its - kind study of Rocketship's use of adaptive, online learning programs as part of its hybrid model; study shows positive impact of online math instruction on student achievement gains

But what positions Rocketship on the cutting edge of school reform is its vision for how technology will integrate with, and change, the structure of the school.

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

There has been some movement on this front, with Rocketship and other schools that use a blended learning model or are fully online, but I think the charter space should really take advantage of some of the innovations in the technology field.

As if Rocketship's references to New Orleans, Milwaukee, San Antonio and Washington DC were not unsettling enough, EdSurge, a corporation that helps schools «find, select and use the right technology to support all learners,» doubles - down on the need to replicate New Orleans» failures with a piece titled, How the «Harbormaster Network» Plans to Spread Nationwide Personalized Learning.