We’ve Been Nominated for a Tulsey Award
Apparently people are paying attention to our success. It is an honor to announce that Launch Academy has been nominated for a Tulsey award! From being a guest speaker at local universities, to [...]
Why Teachers Won’t Get A Real Raise
By Dominick Cooper, Director and Lead Creative Tutor of Launch Academy, Winner of the DaVinci Scholar Award, and University Guest Speaker Alright, so here’s the gist: Teachers get paid by [...]
Classroom Rules – When to Compete and when to Collaborate
By Dominick Cooper, Director and Lead Creative Tutor of Launch Academy, Winner of the DaVinci Scholar Award, and University Guest Speaker It’s a messy world in the classroom. Gossip. [...]
Is it Possible to Learn Like the Matrix?
“What if I told you…that in the future, you could download all your learning?” “Holy synapses, Batman! That sounds ridiculous!” Is it? Perhaps not! If we’re [...]
Math demystified – What really is “math??”
If you ask someone what history is, they would say something like, “a study of past events.” If you asked them what biology was, it becomes a little more fuzzy and may sound like [...]
The Asian Secret to getting the A
Let’s face it, Asians as a majority tend to do better in Mathematics than other American ethnic groups. Racism aside, the facts show it. For the past 20 years (and probably more), [...]
The Classroom of the Future
Written by Oklahoma DaVinci scholar, Director of Launch Academy, and University Guest Speaker Imagine you are an alien, visiting a classroom (you’ve been waiting all day to do this, I [...]
