Results at Rocketship have not been strong. What will you do differently as a leader of schools across the state? Yeah, so I've told this story and I'm fine with this. Like Our first two years we were using phonics in the science of reading. We got away from that and you could see the results for students went down. We were using, Micah was using a teacher made phonics curriculum that had worked at some of the schools, but not all of them. It's really important that we're using research, evidence based curriculum. (48:28–48:38)
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