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Using My Voice from Parent to Board Member

Yolanda Bernal-Samano, Parent Leader and Rocketship National Board Member | February 6, 2023

My parents came from Mexico; they’re immigrants and they came here because they knew that education would open doors for my siblings and I, and so they always really pushed…

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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…

Achieving My Lifelong Dream of Becoming a Teacher

by Bruni Hernandez | August 26, 2021

I am finally fulfilling my lifelong dream of becoming a classroom teacher. How? By earning my Bachelor’s Degree in one year while working full-time. Today, after 10 years at Rocketship Brilliant Minds as a paraeducator and art enrichment coordinator, I get to stand in front of my very own classroom as a first-grade STEM teacher.…

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…