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Rocketship was founded by Preston Smith and John Danner in 2006. [1] The organization opened its first school in San Jose, California in 2007. [2] At its flagship school, students scored as high as Palo Alto School District students on California's state assessment, earning praise as an innovative alternative for low-income students. [3]
- Rocketship Education
- Charter schools
- 2006
- Preston Smith, John Danner
Mar 28, 2023 · Preston Smith works with students at Rocketship Rising Stars Academy in San Jose, California during the 2017-18 school year. (Rocketship Public Schools) In Milwaukee, where we now have two schools, what we saw is the district really wanted our Rocketeers, so they opened additional middle schools so they could serve our kids.
Preston Smith co-founded Rocketship in 2006. He has held numerous roles at Rocketship, including teacher, principal, Director of Schools, and Chief Achievement Officer. He has led Rocketship’s professional development, leadership development, integrated special education, and student and teacher recruitment. In 2013, he was named CEO. Prior to Rocketship, Preston was founder and Principal of ...
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- Personalized learning starts at home. We grabbed a lot of headlines as being one of the pioneers of personalized learning. We remain staunch advocates for the purposeful integration of technology to support student learning and promote student agency, but personalized learning is about much more than tech.
- To change the system, we need to create more demand. Rocketship is focused exclusively on elementary education. Of course, a lot of parents, funders, and partners have encouraged us to build out a K-12 system.
- Honor the power of parents. We built our parent leadership program to help families exercise their power to demand political attention, hold leaders accountable, and enable high-quality public school systems to thrive.
- Integrating students won’t create culturally responsive schools — teachers will. There has been a lot of chatter about charter schools and segregation lately, and much of it is off the mark.
Mar 21, 2017 · The Accidental Educator. Preston Smith, Rocketship Co-founder and CEO, won the 2016 University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Distinguished Alumni Award. This led to a feature in the University of North Carolina Alumni Review’s spring issue. Back when Preston Smith ’01 was in high school, it wasn’t hard to pick him out of the crowd.
Founding Principal of L.U.C.H.A. Elementary School. Jul 2004 - Jun 2007 3 years. Founded L.U.C.H.A., a small, autonomous district school, with a team of parents and teachers, ensuring that the ...
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Preston Smith. Co-founder & CEO. Read Bio > Maricela Guerrero. Executive Director, California. Read Bio > Lamar Wade. Chief People Officer. Read Bio > Maria Heredia.
