Sentences with phrase «with rocketship»

This seems in line with Rocketship's responsibly serving the communities in which it has schools.

In conjunction with its largely - vulnerable student body, Rocketship shows great interest in its low attrition rates; last year, 90 % of Rocketeers chose to stay with Rocketship despite each having a district spot available to them.

These figures are significant because they show how a student's contact with a Rocketship school is changing their achievement from what it would have been had the student remained in a district school.

See my recent post about Shaka Mitchell (who, as of last week, is no longer with Rocketship), Ravi Gupta, and John Little.

«OSSE and My School DC realize this is a challenging time for families matched with the Rocketship Public Charter School campus in Ward 5.

The board and staff found a number of problems with Rocketship's charter petition.

Every Child Ready is used at AppleTree's 10 preschools, including the preschools we operate in partnerships with Rocketship, Democracy Prep and Achievement Prep charter schools in D.C..

Franklin McKinley district staff found several major faults with the Rocketship petition.

Morgan Hill Unified outlines the core issues with Rocketship, including high teacher to student ratios, tiny property for such a large number of students, questionable education practices, and issues with teacher credentialling.

It rents a building bought and renovated by a Los Angeles hedge fund that partners with Rocketship, but refuses to release financial details.

The lack of principal credentialing appears to be in conflict with Rocketship's charter, both through County Office of Education, and Franklin - McKinley School District.

One interesting overlap with the charter growth story: AppleTree is likely to team up with Rocketship charters (a pairing Pearson suggested), which in 2015 is scheduled to open the first of eight charter schools it is planning for the District.

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.

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

This is a hat and scarf set I made with a rocketship applique I saw a picture of another rocketship with felt fins but could not find a pattern anywhere, do I made my own.

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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.

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.

With his partner David Burkhead, a physics undergraduate and fellow science - fiction writer, he has designed the SpaceCub, a rocketship named after the inexpensive and easy - to - fly American Piper Cub aeroplane.

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.

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.

The KIPP network and CMOs Uncommon Schools and Rocketship Education have demonstrated the ability to achieve success with challenging populations, so it may not be surprising that districts pursuing reform seek to partner with them or with equally successful EMOs.

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.»

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.»

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.

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.

He lives in San Jose with his wife and two children who attend Rocketship Fuerza Community Prep.

One of the original innovators I would call out is John Danner, who, along with Preston Smith, founded Rocketship Education.

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.

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.

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).

Often, advocates confuse attempts to reduce overall costs with efforts to re-allocate the same costs into a different instructional model (i.e., Rocketship).

Rocketship Education, a CMO based in northern California, uses a «hybrid» model that combines learning technology with great teaching to deliver outstanding results at much lower school site — level costs.

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

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

Design a school that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now What?

Coupled with rigorous classroom instruction and teachers, Learning Lab enables Rocketship to assess students» weaknesses and provide remediation to ensure they graduate prepared for a college - prep curriculum.

Rocketship administered the Northwest Evaluation Association's (NWEA) mathematics tests at the beginning of the study in September 2010, with a post-study test in January / February of 2011.

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

Rocketship is often credited with kicking off the blended learning movement.

(Rocketship uses the term «hybrid,» rather than the increasingly prevalent term «blended learning,» because the computers are not actually «blended» with face - to - face instruction in the same classroom.)

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.

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.

AppleTree students are enrolled at Rocketship and we work closely with the kindergarten teachers to ensure a successful transition from pre-K to elementary school.

In California, Rocketship Public Schools are propelling first - generation Latino students to top state scores by combining classroom teaching with individualized tutors and technology — and save money doing it.

Documents show that Agassi's firm pressured Rocketship to be an exclusive partner, but Rocketship backed out, opting instead for an MOU with a fixed number of schools promised to Agassi.

Ironically, by Rocketship's own standards, they would need to build another school nearby to compete with and replace their own failing schools.

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