Since 1979, Larry Reynolds has lived and raised a family in an old sea captain’s home in coastal Searsport, an easy back road commute to Ironwood.

He graduated with a degree in Natural Science from Johns Hopkins University, and later earned his MS in Oceanography at the University of Maine.

He has been a teacher for eighteen years, in public and private schools, and at the undergraduate level in three Maine colleges. He has cofounded two alternative therapeutic schools, Liberty School and the River School. In 1996 he and his family went to Kenya for a year, where he taught in a rural high school near Lake Victoria. He went back to Africa in 2003 as a Fulbright Exchange Teacher, at a high school in Eastern Cape Province, on a dirt road twenty miles from the power lines.

Prior to teaching at Ironwood, he worked as a pilot, welder, park ranger, carpenter and offshore fisheries observer.

Larry enjoys travel and experiential education, reading, cycling and playing the fiddle, and volunteers nights as an EMT on Searsport’s ambulance. He has led high school experiential trips in Newfoundland and Labrador, Ecuador, throughout eastern and southern Africa, and of course in Maine.

Larry has been with Ironwood for over three years and loves working with the teaching staff to make the academic experience at Ironwood the very best. “Ironwood’s teaching staff work well with teens because we meet every student exactly where they are academically. Each student’s program is entirely individualized. No one is asked to do anything they cannot do, but all are expected to do everything they can. At Ironwood school we don’t dwell on disabilities, but rather abilities."

"I’ve never met a teen I didn’t like!”