Larry Rosenstock

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Larry Rosenstock, CEO and founding principal of High Tech High

Larry Rosenstock was born in New York City, earned his B.A. degree in psychology from Brandeis University in 1970, his M.E.d. in Educational Administration from Cambridge College in 1985, and his J.D. from Boston University in 1986.

Rosenstock taught manual arts at McLean Hospital in Boston, MA in 1977-1978. He was a vocational/special needs teacher in the Boston public schools from 1978-1981. He taught carpentry at Cambridge Rindge and Latin from 1981-1988.

Rosenstock then became staff attorney for the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University from 1988-1990 where he worked to help re-authorize the Carl Perkins Act, a piece of federal legislation that funds vocational education in the United States. He was the executive director of the Rindge School of Technical Arts from 1990-1996. He was the principal of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin for the 1995-1996 school year.

From 1996-1997, Rosenstock was the 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. Rosenstock and his team created three design principles that seemed to be common in the successful urban high schools that they found. 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.

Rosenstock moved to San Diego to become the president of the Price Charitable Fund from 1997-1999.

In 2000, Rosenstock became the C.E.O. and founding principal of High Tech High, first one school and now a charter management organization that currently runs seven schools in California.

Awards include being named an Ashoka Fellow in 2002. [1]

• Rosenstock was profiled in Forbes magazine here: [2]