{"id":38,"date":"2015-05-19T09:06:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2019-05-08T12:12:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:12:30","slug":"about-rocket-math","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/about-rocket-math\/","title":{"rendered":"About Rocket Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1432230959891{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221; bg_type=&#8221;no_bg&#8221; bg_grad=&#8221;background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, #E3E3E3));background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: -o-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);&#8221; 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title=&#8221;Why teach facts to automaticity?&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">About the founder<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Don Crawford has been an educator for 40 years, at all levels in both regular and special education.\u00a0 He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon.\u00a0 Dr. Crawford has trained Special Education teachers at three universities.\u00a0 He is a curriculum author of several instructional programs and has published scholarly articles and given teacher training workshops around the country. Dr. Don has served in a variety of administrative roles in charter schools and educational non-profits.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Don\u2019s passion is curriculum design.\u00a0 He believes strongly that properly designed curriculum will work for all students.\u00a0 He first used effectively designed curriculum in his classroom and learned how to design it at the University of Oregon. He has been an advocate for effective instructional curriculum ever since.\u00a0 The Rocket Math company is a direct outgrowth of his desire to ensure that teachers are given effective tools that will teach all students.\u00a0 Dr. Don currently runs Rocket Math in Happy Valley, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Further questions?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-06.1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-34876 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-06.1-226x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-06.1-226x300.png 226w, https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-06.1-200x265.png 200w, https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-06.1.png 295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Email: don@rocketmath.com<\/p>\n<p>Phone: 888-488-4854[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1432230959891{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221; bg_type=&#8221;no_bg&#8221; bg_grad=&#8221;background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, #E3E3E3));background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: -o-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);&#8221; parallax_style=&#8221;vcpb-default&#8221; bg_image_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; bg_image_size=&#8221;cover&#8221; bg_img_attach=&#8221;scroll&#8221; parallax_sense=&#8221;30&#8243; animation_direction=&#8221;left-animation&#8221; animation_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; video_opts=&#8221;&#8221; viewport_vdo=&#8221;off&#8221; enable_controls=&#8221;off&#8221; bg_override=&#8221;0&#8243; parallax_content_sense=&#8221;30&#8243; fadeout_start_effect=&#8221;30&#8243; overlay_pattern_opacity=&#8221;80&#8243; overlay_pattern_attachment=&#8221;fixed&#8221; multi_color_overlay=&#8221;&#8221; multi_color_overlay_opacity=&#8221;60&#8243; seperator_type=&#8221;none_seperator&#8221; seperator_position=&#8221;top_seperator&#8221; seperator_shape_size=&#8221;40&#8243; seperator_svg_height=&#8221;60&#8243; seperator_shape_background=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; seperator_shape_border=&#8221;none&#8221; seperator_shape_border_width=&#8221;1&#8243; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39169,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/39169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketmath.com\/stagingserver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}