[2] During and after law school at Boston University, Rosenstock taught carpentry and woodworking classes to urban youth for a total of eleven years.
He created a program “CityWorks”, which won the Ford Foundation Innovations in State and Local Government Award in 1992.
Rosenstock and his team created three design principles that seemed to be common in the successful urban high schools that they found.
These design principles are personalization, real-world connection, and common intellectual mission.
Awards include being named an Ashoka Fellow in 2002 [5] and a Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education winner in 2010.