Co-Founder/Co-Dir
Big Picture Learning
Dennis Littky, a founder of The Met School, Big Picture Learning, and College Unbound, has spent 40 years as an educator in rural, urban, and suburban districts working from kindergarten through college. Big Picture now has more than 60 Met-like schools in the United States, and more than 40 overseas. Dennis has PhDs in education and psychology and has received national recognition, including a Principal of the Year award, The McGraw Hill Education Award for Excellence, and selection as one of George Lucas’s Daring Dozen in Education. He authored the book The Big Picture: Education is Everyone’s Business and was the subject of A Town Torn Apart, a made-for-T.V. movie starring L.A. Law’s Michael Tucker. In Rhode Island, Dennis has been honored with a Bank of America Local Hero Award, a Providence Business News Entrepreneur of the Year award, and the New England Board of Higher Education's 2011 Higher Education Excellence Merit Award. In December 2010, Dennis was a featured speaker at the World Innovation Summit for Education in Doha, Qatar.