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Brief
Biography Dr. Gerald A.
Lieberman is an internationally recognized authority on school improvement
using natural and community surroundings as interdisciplinary contexts for
education. He led the development of the innovative educational strategy
called EIC Model™, using a school's local Environment as the
Integrating Context for learning and, more recently, the development of the
curriculum for the State of California's Education and the Environment
Initiative. During the past seven
years, Dr. Lieberman served as the principal consultant for the State of
California’s Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI). The EEI is
a cooperative endeavor of the California Environmental Protection Agency, the
California Department of Education, the State Board of Education, the
Governor’s Secretary of Education, the Integrated Waste Management
Board and the Resources Agency. Dr. Lieberman led the development of the
State’s approved “Environmental Principles and Concepts”
the plan for the “EEI Curriculum.” In 2010, this standards-based
curriculum was completed and approved by California's State Board of
Education. The EEI Curriculum is now being disseminated to K-12 classrooms
throughout California. The EEI Curriculum is available for downloading at www.californiaeei.org. In 1995 Dr. Lieberman
founded and has since directed the State
Education and Environment Roundtable (SEER), originally a cooperative
endeavor of departments of education in 16 states. SEER now works directly
with schools to help them meet their academic goals through a process of
continuous improvement based on the EIC Model™. SEER's work was
sponsored by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
The Education Commission of the States
recognized SEER's EIC Model™ as a "promising practice… that
shows evidence of success in improving student achievement." Over the past 30
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 focused 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 received an
award from the National Environmental
Education 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
currently serves on the Board of the Captain Planet Foundation where he
chairs the Strategic Planning Committee, and is a past Chair of the
Commission on Education of IUCN, the World Conservation Union. This brief biography
can be downloaded here: Biography
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