A Lasting Impact in the Classroom and Beyond

Larry Strauss has taught thousands of children in South Los Angeles since the early 1990s and has mentored dozens of new and struggling teachers since the early 2000s. A National Board Certified teacher since 2003, he created an AP program and an athletic program at his school and saw both programs blossom-and coached an LA City basketball championship team whose coaching staff included the captain of the school's very first basketball team 23 years earlier. In his youth he was a New York subway graffiti writer, a stand-up comic, a disco bouncer, and for two seasons a writer on the first-generation Transformers cartoon. Bluesky Handle: @Lstrauss