Larry Rosenstock was the director from 1996-1997 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. Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs High Tech High Charter School (High Tech High)

Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs High Tech High Charter School

Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs High Tech High Charter School, often referred to as High Tech High , is a public charter high school in :San Diego, California...

 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 part of the High Tech High charter schools

High Tech High charter schools

High Tech High is a San Diego, California-based school-development organization that includes a network of charter schools, a teacher certification program, and a graduate school of education....

 umbrella organization that currently runs seven schools in California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

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Awards include being named an Ashoka Fellow

Ashoka: Innovators for the Public

Ashoka: Innovators for the Public is a nonprofit organization based in Arlington, VA, supporting the field of social entrepreneurship. Ashoka was founded by Bill Drayton in 1981 to identify and support leading social entrepreneurs through a Social Venture Capital approach with the goal of...

in 2002.

External links

• Rosenstock profiled in Forbes magazine