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Our Community Has Something to Say in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day

January 15, 2021

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Rocketship Washington DC community has a message for you. This past summer, DC school leaders, teachers, parents, and students came together…

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20 Ways to Better Support Students with Exceptionalities when Virtual Teaching

By Krista Pupillo, Integrated Special Education teacher, Nashville | December 16, 2020

Virtual learning has been an exciting, challenging, and sometimes frustrating new frontier for students and educators. While we’ve all masterfully risen to the challenge, the needs of students receiving special education services are top of mind for teachers trying their best to reach all students. My defining philosophy as a teacher is “All students want…

Inside our Virtual Interest Clubs: American Sign Language

Kathie Barraga, Learning Lab Coordinator & Interest Club Leader | November 2, 2020

At Rocketship, enrichment classes are how we integrate content into our students’ days that they normally wouldn’t have. Affluent schools often offer music, art, science, engineering, drama, dance, foreign languages, and the list goes on. If we don’t offer these experiences to our students, will they have access to them somewhere else? Our students deserve…

Introducing Distance Learning Plus

by Preston Smith, Co-Founder and CEO, Rocketship Public Schools | October 2, 2020

Last month, all Rocketship schools across the country opened in distance learning. We took the best features from our spring program and added new approaches for this school year. Our Distance Learning Plus program features: 3 hours of live teaching per day. As we learned last spring, daily live teaching is critical to promote student…

Borsuk: Young Children Struggle with Distance Learning. This Teacher has Solutions.

Alan J. Borsuk, Special to the Journal Sentinel | May 18, 2020

*This article originally appeared on The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel May 15, 2020 “My main job as a K4 teacher is making kids fall in love with learning.” And Emily Suarez Del Real is doing her best to do her job. These days, it’s not easy, and the circumstances are not ideal. Suarez Del Real’s work…

Exploring the World, Virtually

by Chelsea Graeff, Kinder Humanities Teacher, Rocketship Los Suenos | May 1, 2020

Distance learning has been in full swing at Rocketship Public Schools for over a month. With only one day off, our schools went from classroom teaching, to distance learning. I have never been more proud of our network, my school campus, or our community, families and students. After nine years teaching at Rocketship Los Sueños,…

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