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Watering Planted Seeds

Eva Heredia, Founding Parent & Parent Leader, Rocketship Discovery Prep | June 7, 2023

I’ve always wanted my kids to do better than me. I haven’t had the chance (yet) to fulfill my dreams of going to college. As a mom, I learned that…

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This Teacher Sparks Joy in Classroom with Multilingual Learning Clubhouse

By Amy De La Rosa, Multilingual Specialist at Rocketship Nashville Northeast Elementary | May 2, 2023

We created this free resource hub at the onset of the pandemic to help elementary school teachers across the country share best practices during an unprecedented time in teaching. Now that school has returned to a degree of normalcy with steady in-person learning, we want to shift gears and spotlight educators within Rocketship that are…

Learn How This 5th-Grade Teacher Brings Positive Role Models into His Classroom

By Brandon LaBella, 5th Grade Teacher, Rocketship Spark Academy | February 14, 2023

Welcome to the first audio edition of Rocketship’s Teacher PD Launchpad content! We created this free resource hub at the onset of the pandemic to help elementary school teachers across the country share best practices during an unprecedented time in teaching. Now that school has returned to a degree of normalcy with steady in-person learning,…

How BurnIn Mental Strategies Can Improve an Educator’s Experience

February 25, 2022

Teaching is a challenge, these young humans deserve the world, and we want to give it to them. Let’s talk about these challenges, especially during a global pandemic. It can be stressful, overwhelming, frustrating, maddening, hopeless, unmanageable. The list could go on and on about all the things we as teachers feel. This mindset can…

5 Ways to Strengthen Relationships in the Classroom

James Cross, Assistant Principal, Rocketship Nashville Northeast Elementary | February 14, 2022

Nobody said going from virtual back to in-person learning would be easy. When the transition first began in the 20-21 school year, we wore our best masks, washed our hands a lot, kept our distance, and welcomed a large number of students back into their school. I was a fourth-grade humanities teacher at the time.…

Bright Spots from Teaching in a Pandemic

Waleed Shaban, Rocketship Brilliant Minds | September 25, 2021

The first day of school, with a full in-person start. Cars were lined up along our driveway, and the excitement in the air was palpable. Regardless of the excitement, my nerves were hitting me on a whole new level, in a way I hadn’t experienced in my previous 4 years of teaching. Was it because…