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Before his pursuit of education interests, he founded and served as CEO of NetGravity, an Internet advertising software company. John possesses a BachelorвЂ™s degree and MasterвЂ™s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and a MasterвЂ™s degree in Education Policy from Vanderbilt. He was the founding director of KIPP Academy Nashville. John served as a teacher in Nashville public schools for three years. John Danner is the son of retired Superior Court Judge Alden Danner and husband of Allison Marston Danner, 40, a federal prosecutor and former law school professor. I think their respective backgrounds are instructive. No doubt they have been game-changers for public education and the educational needs of children living in low socio-economic areas of San Jose.

San Jose/Silicon Valley is incredibly fortunate to have them residing and working in our midst. Professionally, I have come to know Danner and Smith as two local educational leaders deeply committed to the educational needs of underserved children. These critical learning systems and beliefs at Rocketship Education have been honed by two local titans of school reform: Co-founders John Danner and the Chief Petitioner for Rocketship 9-28, Preston Smith. Quality formative assessments that inform instruction.

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High Quality Professional Development and Coaching models ДЎ0. Blended learning using 100 minutes of instruction in a computer lab ДЁ. Teacher quality, attracting the best and the brightest teachers using the Teach For America talent from top-tier universities from around the U.S.ДҐ. The chemistry of success for Rocketship Education and its current five schools has everything to do with:ДЎ. The learning model at Mateo Sheedy has received national attention and proven to be scalable and replicable, as the nonprofit public benefit corporation works on continuous improvement to its critical systems. In its first year of operation (2007), based on the Academic Performance Index (API), Rocketship Mateo Sheedy became the highest ranked low-income elementary school in the county and seventh in the state. To demonstrate how things are changing in the pursuit of a public education system responsive to all its students, in November 2011 the San Jose Unified School District Board, on a recommendation from Superintendent Mathews, voted 5-0 to approve its first Rocketship Charter School. This local story takes off from here, now with a national spotlight. Months later on appeal to the SCCOE Board of Education, Rocketship Mateo Sheedy was authorized. San Jose UnifiedвЂ™s Board, on a recommendation from then Superintendent Inglesias, denied the charter petition. Five years later he petitioned San Jose Unified School District for a charter K-5 grade school to address the issues of underserved, mostly Latino youth in downtown San Jose. The Pastor turned to John Danner, CEO of Rocketship who co-founded Sacred Heart Nativity School, a private Catholic school in 2000 for at-risk Latino boys (and now girls) in grades 6-8. He envisioned chartering local schools that would develop models of learning with high expectations for each student. Working to solve this problem, Father Sheedy dreamed big. He could not find one student qualified to have the requisite skills and courses to succeed at SCU.

Father Sheedy quickly learned that the public schools in the area were failing to meet the educational needs of their students. In 1999, Father Mateo Sheedy, Pastor of Sacred Heart Church, was commissioned by Santa Clara University to find student candidates from the parish who could succeed at a four-year university. The seeds of this remarkable Rocketship story were planted over decade ago in a parish church a block away from where my father grew up as first-generation Italian immigrant. President Pam Parker of the Santa Clara County School BoardвЂ™s Association sent an email on Sunday to all SCC school board members entitled, вЂњA Call To Arms.вЂќ President Parker wrote in her email, вЂњвЂ¦ I feel it is imperative that we take a stand now or suffer the consequences in the future.вЂќ Parker was asking SCC school board members to attend the meeting and voice their concern about an affirmative vote by the County Board to approve.

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For each item, the county staff recommends approval insofar as the petition вЂњmeets the minimum requirements for countywide charter approval set forth in Educational Code section 47605.6.вЂќ Each new school approval is listed as a separate action item on the BoardвЂ™s agenda. A decision before the SCCOE Board of Education is whether or not to approve 20 Rocketship Charter Schools on a countywide benefit charter basis. There is a game-changing local story about to take place in a few days.