Brief Biography
Dr. Gerald A. Lieberman

Dr. Gerald A. Lieberman is an internationally recognized authority on school improvement using natural and community surroundings as interdisciplinary contexts for education. He recently led the development of the innovative educational strategy called EIC, using a school's local Environment as the Integrating Context for learning.

In 1995 Dr. Lieberman founded and has since directed the State Education and Environment Roundtable (SEER), a cooperative endeavor of departments of education in 12 states. SEER works with these agencies to help schools meet their academic goals through a process of continuous improvement based on the EIC approach. SEER's work is sponsored by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The Education Commission of the States recently recognized SEER's EIC program as a "promising practice … that shows evidence of success in improving student achievement."

Over the past 26 years, Dr. Lieberman has created and conducted professional development programs for more than 9,000 educators and other professionals, working with formal education systems at local, state, national and international levels. He has designed and coordinated curriculum development programs in the United States, Costa Rica, Honduras, Colombia and Argentina. During the past five years, Dr. Lieberman has focussed his work on professional development programs that help schools achieve school improvement goals through implementation of the EIC approach.

Dr. Lieberman is the principal author of Closing the Achievement Gap: Using the Environment as an Integrating Context for Learning, a ground-breaking, national study that recently received an award from the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation for "bringing environmental learning into the mainstream of American K-12 education." He has authored 40 other major reports, books and articles on subjects related to environment-based teaching strategies and environmental science.

Dr. Lieberman received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Princeton University and his B.A. from U.C.L.A. He is a past Chair of the Commission on Education of IUCN, the World Conservation Union.

Dr. Lieberman's wide-ranging practical experience, knowledge and strategies for improving education make him a highly sought-after educational improvement consultant, keynote speaker and workshop presenter.