• Ross School
• Official site for the Ross School, founded by Courtney Ross
• October 13, 2011:: The Ross School’s Tennis Academy is turning out as hoped.
• November 9, 2011: The Ross School celebrates its 20th Anniversary.

• Ross Institute
• Official site for the Ross Institute, founded by Courtney Ross
• August, 2011:The Ross Institute hosts an international bevy of distinguished scholars and educators for their Summer Academy in East Hampton.

• Ross Tensta Gymnasium
• Official site for the Ross Tensta Gymnasium
• October 11, 2011:The Ross Tensta Gymnasium receives formal accreditation as a Ross Network School.

Courtney Sale Ross

Courtney Sale Ross has been an innovative leader in the field of education for two decades. Courtney Sale Ross recognized that preparing students to meet the challenges of the 21st century requires pioneering models that will transform education. Aided by the research of many educational pioneers and leading thinkers, she set out to expand upon some of the best practices in PK-12 education. Today Courtney Sale Ross is the founder of Ross School and Ross Institute.

The Ross School
In 1991, Courtney Sale Ross and her late husband Steven J. Ross, co-chairman of TimeWarner, Inc., founded Ross School in East Hampton, NY as a private incubator for 21st century education. Ross School now serves nearly 500 students from 28 countries in Pre-Nursery through Grade 13 on two beautiful campuses in East Hampton and Bridgehampton, New York. The global, integrated curriculum at Ross School combined with on-site learning, peer teaching, mentoring, and technology ensures that students will have the skills and frameworks essential for the 21st century.

The Ross Institute
In 1996 Courtney Sale Ross founded Ross Institute for Advanced Study and Innovation in Education, a groundbreaking organization that serves as a catalyst for research in areas relevant to globalization and education, the functioning of the mind, brain and education and curriculum development that fosters intercultural understanding. The work of the Institute focuses on three major areas: providing professional development for schools who would like to adopt the Ross Model, growing worldwide community of Ross Network Schools committed to 21st century education and catalyzing research in order to improve pedagogical practice.
In 2006, Courtney Sale Ross led the Institute in opening the Ross Global Academy Charter School in New York City, in collaboration with New York University's Steinhardt School of Education and New York City's Board of Education. With a diverse studentbody and an innovative world history curriculum, RGA was a rich and thriving school that served its families well until June 2011.
With the University of California Press, Ross Institute has co-published Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium (2004), Learning in the Global Era (2007), and most recently, Educating the Whole Child for the Whole World (2010).

Ross Tensta Gymnasium
Courtney Sale Ross and the Ross Institute partnered with the City of Stockholm and the Stockholm Education Administration in 2002 to bring the Ross model to Tensta Gymnasium, a Swedish public secondary school with a high proportion of immigrant and refugee students. Six years of intensive professional development and extensive teacher training in curriculum and pedagogy has transformed Ross Tensta Gymnasium into an accredited Ross school embodying the essential elements of the Ross Model. Ross Tensta has evolved into a thriving school, engaging students of diverse cultural backgrounds, attracting a vibrant, young faculty and creating new, appealing programs based on global perspectives and integrated learning.

In addition to her work with the Ross School and Ross Institute, Courtney Sale Ross has also given to major universities across the United States, including: Harvard University, New York University, University of Southern California, and Skidmore College. Courtney Sale Ross created the Ross Scholarship for deserving women from under-represented minorities at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She has also created the Courtney Sale Ross Mainland China Scholarship for Arts in Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her philanthropic interests extend to the People's Republic of China, where she has endowed a number of museums with contributions related to education and research, including establishing the Courtney and Steven J. Ross Multi-Media and Communications Center at the Shanghai Museum.

Courtney Sale Ross has served on a number of boards including those of New York University, the Asia Society, the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California, the Committee on U.S./China Relations, and the United Nations Association of the United States of America.

Prior to her work in education, Courtney Sale Ross founded a contemporary art gallery in Dallas, Texas. Courtney Sale Ross has also produced a number of films, including 'The Big Picture,' as well as a six-part documentary series on New York School artists called 'Strokes of Genius.' In 1990, Courtney Sale Ross was executive producer for 'Listen Up! The Lives of Quincy Jones'.

Courtney Sale Ross is a graduate of Skidmore College, where she was awarded an honorary doctoral degree in 1991. She is the widow of Steven J. Ross, former Chairman and CEO of Time Warner, and the mother of Nicole Ross, one of Ross School's first graduates and now a member of the Ross Institute Board of Trustees.