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A Vision to Learn

Tamika Joyner-Lewis, Associate Director, Growth & Community Engagement for Rocketship DC | March 30, 2023

As a native Washingtonian, I was proud to think I knew everything there is to know about services in the District of Columbia. However, in 2018, I was proven wrong.…

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Celebrating Neurodiversity

by Vanessa Flores | April 7, 2022

I work with children with learning differences because of my brother. My brother Jayden was diagnosed with autism at age 3 and a half. In kindergarten, my mom enrolled him in our neighborhood’s district school because it seemed like it would be the best option for him at the time. It wasn’t a great experience…

Celebrating HBCUs With My Black Students

By Corey Lewis | September 23, 2021

“I want to go to an HBCU because I’m Black and these schools are run by Black people like me.” That’s what Brooke Fairley, a 5th grader, told me recently. College readiness has become the go-to buzzword in K-12 education. Schools across the country emphasize and talk about college readiness curriculum, and how it is…

How Rocketship Public Schools Helps My Special Needs Son Defy The Odds

by Jade Carr | September 2, 2021

“Your son won’t start reading until middle school.” That was the expert opinion of my son’s pediatrician, autism specialist, and physical therapists. They said his lack of focus, trouble with verbal language and difficulty with comprehension would put his reading skills years behind his peers. But they didn’t know about Rocketship Public Schools. Nzuri is…

Embracing Neurodiversity This Month & Every Month

Jennie Wu, ISE Specialist, Rocketship Futuro Academy | April 2, 2021

Autism awareness means that everyone in our community is aware that there is more than one way of seeing the world, more than one way to take in information, and more than one way to communicate or express oneself. Our students with autism are some of the funniest people I know, so you definitely should…