Rocketship Education, originally founded as a
one-off public charter school in San Jose, California, is a network of 19
public schools that are wholly dedicated to rigorously educating
students who otherwise would have ended up in low-quality, problem-rampant
learning environments. The thousands of students who most recently attended
classes at Rocketship public schools were shown to be a full year ahead
of their peers in English, language arts, and mathematics.
Looking into the two
kindergarten-through-fifth-grade programs currently offered by Rocketship
public schools in the nation's capital, similar indicators of top-notch
performance are just as abundant. Take, for example, the fact that Rocketship's
two schools in the District of Columbia took home recognition of what's known
as Tier 1 status.
In the nation's capital, the members of the DC
Public Charter School Board collectively band their expertise in the world of
education and their innate intelligence together to judge where all
public charter school establishments rank. The organization uses four levels -
Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, and untiered schools - to inform the public of what it
thinks the best schools are.
Keeping kids' interests in reading books, magazines, poems, and other
pieces of literature is tied directly to success
As you may have already guessed, Rocketship
Education's administrators and teachers share countless highly effective
strategies with one another in order to maintain competitive advantages over
rival schools. Here are a handful of these strategies - if you're a teacher, take
notes!
Books are far from being the only things to read
Rocketship staff members find it easy to spark
kids' interests in reading by encouraging them to read things like road signs,
instructions on boxed cake mixes, and restaurant menus. It's easy to
incorporate games into time spent reading things outside of books and other
traditional literary material.
Don't just talk about it - be about it!
Young students are highly impressionable.
If one classroom's teacher rarely reads books or newspapers in the presence of
her students, students will be much less likely to want to read themselves.
Setting examples truly goes a very, very long way.
Allow students to read subjects of books that interest them
Forcing kids to read material that they're not
interested in will cause them to associate reading with negative experiences.
Encouraging young students to read can also be done by allowing them to read
virtually any and every subject they want.
The proverbial proof is in the pudding - let's look at Rocketship
Education's batch of statistical dessert
Since Rocketship Education was founded
by the talented entrepreneurs Preston Smith and John Danner in 2006, the chain
of public charter schools have served upwards of 18,000 young students, a
whopping 82 percent of which hailed from low-income backgrounds.
People who grow up in households that struggle
financially are statistically less likely to complete any level of
higher education, earn even a semblance of a respectable income, and
steer clear of risky behaviors known for stunting career growth and development
like voluntarily associating one's self with individuals or peer groups associated
with gang activity or getting trapped in the vicious cycle of abusing hard
drugs on a daily basis.
Thanks to the award-winning, societal
class-leading academic programs that Rocketship Public Schools pushes its
students through, they're many times less likely to fall short to any of the
problems mentioned above. Yet another statistic that demonstrates just
how effective Rocketship's programs are is that its schools almost always
finish in the top 10 percent of public school districts that serve the same
demographic of students that the Rocketship Education public charter school system is designed to serve.
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