High Tech High Founder Speaks at Shore
Rob Riordan, the co-founder of San Diego's High Tech High, came to Shore on October 1 as a special guest speaker at the school's free, public screening of the acclaimed documentary Most Likely to Succeed. Riordan's views and the success of the innovative school he helped found are at the center of the film's reimagining of our education system for the 21st century. Also in attendance at the screening was the film's education consultant, Stephanie Rogen of Greenwich Leadership Partners.
Riordan has been a teacher, trainer, and program developer for over 40 years, and has worked with teams to develop 14 new schools (11 at High Tech High) spanning the K-12 years. As a long-time teacher in the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, he developed an award-winning writing center and two pioneering school-to-work transition programs.
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Riordan has been a teacher, trainer, and program developer for over 40 years, and has worked with teams to develop 14 new schools (11 at High Tech High) spanning the K-12 years. As a long-time teacher in the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, he developed an award-winning writing center and two pioneering school-to-work transition programs.
An Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival, the feature-length Most Likely to Succeed examines the history of education in the U.S., revealing the growing shortcomings of a more than 100-year-old school model in todayʼs innovative world. The film criticizes the factory-inspired model of education that is still in place at many schools, and features the voices of innovators and leaders on the steps needed to overturn this model.
It closely observes the results of change at High Tech High, where teachers are encouraged to challenge archaic measures of success through project-based learning and the development of character skills like confidence, time management, and collaboration. Free of whining and negativity, the film inspires its audiences with a sense of purpose and possibility, and is bringing school communities together in re-imagining what our students and teachers are capable of doing.
It closely observes the results of change at High Tech High, where teachers are encouraged to challenge archaic measures of success through project-based learning and the development of character skills like confidence, time management, and collaboration. Free of whining and negativity, the film inspires its audiences with a sense of purpose and possibility, and is bringing school communities together in re-imagining what our students and teachers are capable of doing.
Following the fim's screening at Shore, Riordan and Rogan answered questions from the engrossed audience of about 150 parents, teachers, and community members. Riordan spoke of his idea of "teachers as designers," and emphasized the critical role design plays in High Tech High's project-based learning model. Riordan also drew parallels between that model for education and the integrated, concept-based, hands-on style of teaching and learning practiced at Shore.
For more information about the film, visit www.mltsfilm.org.
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Riordan and Rogen
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Riordan and Rogen with Daphne Faldi, Lee Carey, Sara Knox, and Larry Griffin
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