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Rocketship RTT-D Initiatives

Personalized learning to meet each child’s needs: • Innovate to improve blended learning model• Accelerate independent student learning through increased student and family

access to technology-enabled supports during out of school time

Excellent teachers and leaders: • Create robust instructional career pathways• Develop educators at all levels to effectively implement learning model• Build a tech-enhanced professional learning community

Engaged parents essential to closing the achievement gap: • Deepen our partnership with People Acting in Community Together (PACT) and

other organizations in order to engage parents to enable success for improved opportunities for education, health, and development of families at Rocketship and beyond

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Rocketship RTT-D Initiatives (2/3)

Excellent teachers and leaders:

• Create robust instructional career pathways: expand the number and reach of highly effective teachers and principals by creating a systemic, coordinated, and individualized approach to developing, recognizing, evaluating, and retaining instructional team members and leaders.

• Develop educators at all levels to effectively implement learning model: Invest in training to ensure that educators are effective in a non-traditional teaching environment and can adapt and personalize instruction based on data about student learning and student needs.

• Build a tech-enhanced professional learning community: develop processes and tools to support collaboration and dissemination of effective instructional practices for personalized learning, including development of a knowledge management platform to enable Rocketship to maintain and improve quality as we scale over time.

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Rocketship RTT-D Initiatives (3/3)

Engaged parents essential to closing the achievement gap:

• Deepen our partnership with People Acting in Community Together (PACT) and other organizations: engage parents to enable success for improved opportunities for education, health, and development of families at Rocketship and beyond.

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Rocketship RTT-D Initiatives (1/3)

Personalized learning to meet each child’s needs:

• Innovate to improve blended learning model: Invest in continued development of flexible classroom model (4th and 5th grades) and ongoing innovations to the pre-k through 3rd grade models, including launching a Learning Management System (LMS) to support student ownership of learning; codify and share successful school-developed practices and innovations across the organization.

• Accelerate independent student learning through increased student and family access to technology-enabled supports during out of school time: Increase access and compatibility for students and families to take ownership and make independent learning progress during non-school time.

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Theory of Change

• Although students make 1.5 years of progress on average per year (fall to spring), 48% of 5th grade exiting students not proficient in ELA; 34% in Math, in part because of summer loss

• Opportunity to further maximize student ownership of learning

• Teachers will benefit from increased support and development

• Opportunity to improve career pathways for educators at all levels

• Families desire more support in order to be fully engaged in their children’s education

Personalized Learning• Strong college-going culture for all

students

• Innovative, improved blended learning model to personalize instruction for students

• Increased access to instructional supports during summer and non-school time

Excellent Teachers & Leaders• Professional development supports,

including data training to increase educator ability to implement model

• Technology-enhanced professional learning community

• Clear educator career pathways that increase teacher capacity & reach

Engaged Parents• Partnership with People Acting in

Community Together (PACT) and other organizations that enables deeper parent engagement

• Achieve 1.5 years of student progress annually

• Close the achievement gap in ELA and math

• 90% of Rocketship students complete high school

• 90% of graduating Rocketship students matriculate to college

• 70% of college enrolling Rocketship students obtain postsecondary degree

• 100% of students have effective teacher and principal and 95% have highly effective teacher and principal

• 70% of parents/guardians deeply engaged in school community

• Refine and improve implementation

• Scale up activities to all new RSED schools

• Share best practices with field to transform teaching, leadership , learning, and parent engagement in personalized learning environments

• Parents have support they need to engage in their children’s education and lead change within their communities

By Rethinking Elementary

School from the Ground Up, we

close the achievement gap

in our lifetime

Theory of Action Theory of ChangeCurrent Situation Intended Impact Ultimate Goal