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A Chain Reaction

Evelyn Rojas, Care Corps Coordinator at Rocketship Spark Academy | October 22, 2021

When I walked in to interview for my first real, professional, post-college job, the words of my elementary school principal stuck in my head: “A weak handshake is the first…

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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…

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…

4 Things that Made a Difference in my Rocketship Career

Principal Juan Mateos, Rocketship Fuerza Community Prep | November 12, 2019

I didn’t always know I wanted to be an educator. I was born in Mexico and moved to Oxnard, California when I was a young boy. We lived on the working class side of town where most kids fall through the cracks. I saw friends and family drop out of high school and fall into…

Here’s How a Teacher From Wauwatosa Got Each of Her Homeroom Students a New Book Every Month of the School Year

by Adriana Ramirez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | September 5, 2019

This article originally appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on September 3, 2019. Wauwatosa resident Meghan Borgwardt made it her personal goal to provide Scholastic reading books for her entire homeroom classroom last school year. The Rocketship Southside Community Prep teacher raised enough money to purchase a book a month for each student. This…