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Ten years ago, we opened the first Rocketship school in a church in San Jose, California. Although we’ve made remarkable impact in the communities we serve, Rocketship Education is still a work in progress — we’re always learning how to better serve our students and communities. And we’ve definitely learned a few things during our first decade.
Here are the first 5 out of the 10 lessons from our first 10 years:
- Personalized learning starts at home
- To change the system, we need to create more demand
- Honor the power of parents
- Integrating students won’t create culturally responsive schools — teachers will
- Actions speak louder than words