![]() He was now checking the progress of students working on math or English problems, at their own pace, on inexpensive laptops. Casey Rowe, a fifth-year teacher in his second year at Rocketship, had switched off after guiding the full group through an exercise preparing for the impending state standardized testing. At a whiteboard in one end, with about 40 students sitting on a rug before her, sixth-year English teacher Judy Lavi led a writing exercise, analyzing a passage for Greek and Latin roots, grammar and sentence fluency. On an afternoon earlier this month at Rocketship Mosaic, a two-year-old, two-story school on a postage stamp lot a block off the main drag of San Jose’s Little Saigon, the 4 th and 5 th graders in their new flexible classroom were doing independent and group work. Rocketship Mosaic English teacher Judy Lavi discusses a reading passage with several dozen students in the front of the former learning lab. Over the course of the day, between 100 and 120 students move from individual computer-based instruction to small-group lessons to a large-group setting, moving on cue with amoeba-like fluidity from one activity to another – at least when it’s working smoothly. Instead of rotating students into a “learning lab” – a large computer room – for about quarter of the day as it does now, several of Rocketship’s seven San Jose schools are experimenting with turning their learning lab into one large, all-day classroom incorporating both technology and three teachers and non-credentialed teaching assistants. Now, as other districts and charter schools are starting to emulate the Rocketship model, which relies on computer-guided instruction as a key component, the K-5 charter school organization is considering leaving it behind, like a first-stage booster, and moving toward a different a 21 st century classroom. ![]() Palo Alto-based Rocketship Education has attracted national attention in the past few years for its innovative use of technology and impressive test scores for its largely low-income, Hispanic students. Eyes on the Early Years Newsletter Archive. ![]() Local Control Funding Formula Explained.California’s Homeless Students: Undercounted, Underfunded And Growing.Full Circle: California Schools Work To Transform Discipline.Tainted Taps: Lead puts California Students at Risk.Education during Covid: California families struggle to learn.College And Covid: Freshman Year Disrupted.Adjuncts’ gig economy at CA community colleges.California’s Community Colleges: At a Crossroads.
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