Lawrence Gloeckler
Lawrence C. Gloeckler is the Executive Director of the Special Education Institute at the International Center for Leadership in Education in Rexford, New York. He also serves as Senior Policy Advisor at the Governor James B. Hunt Institute for Education Leadership and Policy at the University of North Carolina. From 1989-2003, Mr. Gloeckler was Deputy Commissioner for the New York State Education Department. In this role, he served as both State Director of Special Education and State Director of Vocational Rehabilitation as well as being responsible for administering the state's Independent Living Program. He served as President of the National Association of State Directors of Special Education from November 2000 to November 2001. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Board of the National Research Center on Learning Disabilities co-located at the University of Kansas and Vanderbilt University, serves on the Professional Advisory Board to the National Center for Learning Disabilities in New York City, and serves as a Policy Consultant to the National Center on Special Education Accountability and Monitoring at Louisiana State University. He also serves on the Critical Issues Committee for the State Departments of Education in Maryland and California.
