Presenter: Rich DeLorenzo
After nearly 40 years as an educator dedicated to reforming broken school systems, Rich DeLorenzo was left with little or no hope. The Re-Inventing Schools Coalition (RISC) offers a paradigm shift for change. One can look to their prize-winning schools as models, but what’s of greater value is their philosophy—it sets traditional schooling on its head and gives us the courage to follow through on what common sense should have been dictating all these years.
DeLorenzo believes RISC is uniquely capable of digging this country out of a seemingly inevitable post-crash fall. He notes that we cannot prosper, let alone globally survive, in any real sense, until our education system, the foundation of our future, pulls its head out of the sand. We must face its failure—not only academic failure, but also social failure. RISC now shows us the way to rebuild from the ground up so our nation's schools will guarantee our country's future success. This is not reform. It is truly reinvention.
