Together, we are creating a holistic community that is empowering for all youth.
RISE High in the News
- Cultivating Hope, Empowerment and Opportunity
- Erin Whalen: Education at the Margins – Empowering Marginalized Youth through Da Vinci RISE High
- Meet Erin Whalen
- Making a Meaningful Impact: Armand Taylor
- Designing the Future of School: The Bridge to Reinvented Education with Erin Whalen (02:56)
- Erin Whalen, M.A. ’20 Leads High School that Reimagines Education for Highest-Risk Students
- Check Out Erin Whalen’s Story
- Da Vinci RISE High Semifinalist in Competition for $1 Million Yass Prize
- Innovative Models Exchange: Da Vinci RISE High
- Grinnell College Alumni Outcome Stories: Erin Whalen ’12
- Meet Erin Whalen: School Builder, Principal and Educator
- First graduating class
- USA Today
- Chronicle of Social Change
- TED Talk
- Birth of a Super School (Harvard Grad School of Ed)
- University of South Carolina
- Winner of $10 million grant to found school brings opportunity to homeless youth
- SCPR
- California Community Foundation: Transforming Learning Video
- Steve Jobs’ widow is giving two L.A. teachers $10 million to start a school for homeless and foster youth