Larry Baran

Larry has been a classroom teacher for a quarter of a century. His goal is to make his students life-long learners by teaching survival academics during the teachable moments of job skills training. Baran has produced champions among his disabled students by getting those special education students involved in production of materials for many national events including presidential inaugurations, remembrances of Pearl Harbor and Desert Storm. Larry Baran is nicknamed Captain Rainbow because he has been able to achieve the impossible for himself and his students. He exemplifies his simple philosophy that “The Impossible Dream Isn’t” to all those people whose lives he’s touched through his many years of teaching and involvement with the community.