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Dubiski Career High

About Offers 15 career pathways in three academies: business and communications, health science and engineering, and human services and transportation. Most of the students have internships and more than half of these are with organizations outside of Grand Prairie. The school provides transportation to the internships, while also providing six…

Design Tech High School

About (d.tech) on the Oracle campus blends design thinking with a focus on success skills to help students forge an identity that will help them as students, professionals, and citizens. Design Tech High School (d.tech), located in Redwood City, California, is a public charter school that emphasizes creativity, innovation, and…

Crosstown High

About Students at Crosstown High spend most of their school day on the fourth and fifth floor of Crosstown Concourse, a million-square-foot renovated Sears office and distribution center opened in 2017 just east of downtown Memphis. The building is home to health providers, universities, theaters, businesses and retailers that support…

One Stone

About After a decade of innovative after-school and summer learning experiences, Boise nonprofit One Stone opened Lab51, a small innovative high school to help young people make the world a better place One Stone, located in Boise, Idaho, is an independent, student-led, and tuition-free high school that focuses on empowering…

High Tech High

About Has 16 schools on four campuses in San Diego County. They are all world class examples of integrated project-based learning and spectacular student art. High Tech High (HTH), based in San Diego, California, is a network of K-12 charter schools that focuses on project-based learning and equity. HTH’s innovative…

Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center (Met)

About Founded in Providence in 1996 by Dennis Littky and Elliot Washor with the goal of teaching one kid at a time. Today the Met is six small Rhode Island public high schools and flagship of the Big Picture Learning network, a leader in internships, individual learning plans, and advisory…

Humanities Preparatory Academy

About One of hundreds of new small coherent high schools formed in New York City in the last decade. Launched in 1997 with support from New Visions for Public Schools, the Humanities Prep team embraced a mission “to provide a philosophical and practical education for all students, an education that…

Tacoma School of the Arts

About A great example of city-as-campus with theaters, museums, and a university as partners. Adjunct performers and artists support depth and application. The Tacoma School of the Arts (SOTA), located in downtown Tacoma, Washington, is a public high school that provides a rigorous, arts-focused education for students in grades 9…

FalconTECH P-TECH at Skyline High School

About Skyline High School’s FalconTECH P-TECH program is a Pathways in Technology Early College High School initiative located in Longmont, Colorado. This innovative program combines high school education with college coursework and industry experience, allowing students to earn both a high school diploma and an Associate of Applied Science degree.

Iowa BIG

About Students from four partner school districts to two Cedar Rapids locations for a half-day program where students learn core academics and 21st century skills through authentic projects connected to community partners. Iowa BIG, based in Cedar Rapids and Marion, Iowa, is an innovative high school program that reimagines education…