Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Allan Bloom

Rocketship Education is reinventing the elementary school education model. Each student attends one block of Math/Science, one block of Learning Lab, and two blocks of Literacy/Social Studies each day. In Learning Lab, students work on computers to focus on individual learning needs. Learning Lab does not require certified teachers and allows Rocketship to reduce staffing by five teachers and five classrooms per school, saving $500,000 per year.

Rocketship reinvests these savings into building better schools. We make five main investments:

• Principal Training – each new principal receives a full year of training before opening their school.
• Response to Intervention (RTI) – students below grade level get an extra hour of tutoring daily.
• Academic Deans – each school has a fulltime Academic Dean to mentor teachers and run RTI.
• Teacher Salaries – Rocketship pays approximately 20 percent higher salaries than surrounding districts
   based on student gains.
• Facilities – Rocketship constructs a new building for each new school.