Your Moment of Joy: A look inside Rocketship

by Rocketship Public Schools | March 21, 2025

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Innovating in the Face of Doubt: A Lesson from a Nobel Laureate

by Genevieve Thomas, Vice President of Integrated Special Education | May 2, 2016

I still have a clear memory of the morning – it was 1990, and I was in the third grade. My mom woke me up earlier than usual to tell me that my grandfather had won the Nobel Prize in medicine. “Nobel Prize” hadn’t yet made it in to my eight-year-old vocabulary, so my mom…

Planting Roots in STEM: Rocketship Girls Explore Science at eBay

by Monique Arnal-Castro, Teacher, Rocketship Fuerza Community Prep | April 18, 2016

It was former NASA ambassador and actress Nichelle Nichols who said, “Science is not a boy’s game, it’s not a girl’s game. It’s everyone’s game. It’s about where we are and where we’re going.” Unfortunately, while they are doing incredible work, women are under-represented in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The…

Lighting a Spark: Rocketship Inspires Innovative School Network in South Africa

by Preston Smith & Bailey Thomson, Co-Founder & CEO, Rocketship Education Director of School Design, SPARK Schools; Teacher and Rising Leader, Rocketship Mateo Sheedy, 2010-2012 | March 14, 2016

From Preston: I was recently invited to present at the Global Schools Forum. My first instinct was to (politely) pass up the invitation. The forum was largely focused on education in the developing world, which I know very little about. But after further conversations with the forum organizers, I learned that they knew a lot…

Creating Equity in the ‘Land of Opportunity’

by Preston Smith, Co-Founder and CEO, Rocketship Public Schools | March 8, 2016

According to a fascinating new article in the Atlantic Monthly, San Jose used to be a launching pad for the American dream, a place where immigrant families gathered, drawn by affordable houses and abundant economic opportunity, and worked together to help their children succeed. The article cites a landmark study released in 2014 by the…

A Job Interview With Parents Transformed My Career

by Joshua Pacos, Founding Principal, Rocketship DC | February 26, 2016

After spending the better part of the past decade teaching and working in charter schools in Washington D.C. and California, I thought I had it pretty well figured out. Then, while I was searching for a new public school leadership opportunity in 2014, I met four parents who – quite frankly – changed the course…

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