Rocketship Residency
Your Path to Becoming an Exceptional Educator
Are you interested in becoming a teacher who catalyzes change in the community? Rocketship Public Schools offers a variety of high quality professional development programs both for those new to teaching as well as experienced educators rising into school leaders.
Rocketship Teacher Residency
This new program gives recent college graduates and career-changers high-quality teacher training and practice, while also earning a Masters of Arts in Transformative Education and working towards a multi-subject teaching credentialing!
Key Benefits of the Teacher Residency:
- Earn your teaching certification in ONE year instead of two through our partner, Loyola Marymount University (LMU)
- Gain 1:1 mentorship from an experienced educator
- Practice teaching in a classroom 4 days/wk with a mentor
- Priority teaching placement after completion at one of our campuses across the country
- Cohort to collaborate with
- Living stipend of $51,000 + insurance options and discounts on Loyola Marymount University tuition
- Specialized schedule to merge learning with live teaching
Who Is Eligible?
- Recent college graduates or career-changers passionate about teaching
- Individuals committed to educational equity and excellence
- Current Rocketship support staff and community members who are interested in a gradual start to teaching
- Bay Area, California residents or those interested in working at one of our 13 California schools
- All applicants must have a bachelor’s degree (preferred GPA of 3.0)
Information sessions and applications will be available in the fall of the 2025-26 schools year.
Ready to Launch Your Teaching Career?
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Earn Your Bachelor’s Degree with Rivet School
Rocketship is excited to continue our partnership with Rivet School – a national nonprofit college program that offers a clear, affordable path to earn a BA virtually (the first step to earning a teaching credential), and a spot in a teacher credentialing program.
Key Benefits:
Completely virtual and flexible
Applications open every couple of months
Onboarding Free 6 Week Trial
Personalized coaching
Financial aid and support
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Rising Leader Program
Rocketship’s Rising Leader program expands the impact of our strongest teachers by creating a pipeline of future leaders. In this program, our strongest educators have the opportunity to:
Connect: Build a cohort of Rising Leaders to learn together and from each other.
Learn: Develop and practice leadership skills – so high-performing teachers can expand the impact of their impact across your campus.
Lead: Become leaders on your campus and increase capacity for your schools.
“Rocketship has been a great place to grow my career because I’ve had an opportunity to learn from and make connections with many great leaders and help others around me rise along the way. I’ve been able to create my own path while embracing diverse perspectives and different leadership styles.”
-Albert Perez, Current Principal, of Rocketship Rising Stars
Grew from a para-professional to teacher to assistant principal to principal
Pathways for Para-Professional to Become Teachers
If you’re a Milwaukee-based staff member, Rocketship is able to offer tuition support for up to two staff members per school who enroll in Alverno’s Para to Teaching Pathways . If staff are enrolled to participate in the Alverno program and meet eligibility criteria, they are eligible for $2000 their first semester and $1500 for each subsequent semester they are enrolled and in good standing for up to 2.5 years.
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