TEDxAmericasFinestCity - Larry Rosenstock - Dualities in Education Innovation

Paradox therapy -design principles of personalization, real-world connection, and common intellectual mission

Larry Rosenstock CEO / Founder -- High Tech High

Larry Rosenstock is CEO and founding principal of High Tech High, a network of innovative and high-achieving charter schools and is President of the High Tech High Graduate School of Education in California.

As the former director of the New Urban High School Project, (an effort funded by the U.S. Department of Education to find and describe new models for urban high schools) Larry Rosenstock and his team created three design principles they found common in successful urban high schools. These design principles are personalization, real-world connection, and common intellectual mission. High Tech High is the first school in the country to be designed based on those principles.

Larry and his work as an educational entrepreneur and innovator have been featured on Oprah, Lehrer, Newsweek, and Forbes. He is a winner of the Ford Foundation Innovations in State and Local Government Award, is an Ashoka Fellow, and has won the McGraw Prize in Education.


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