Gerald Lauber, Ed.D.
Gerald Lauber Senior Advisor to the Thinking Foundation and a principal in the Cognitive Process Corporation. He was Senior Advisor to the President and Director of the NUA’s Teaching Financial Literacy Education initiative, brings to the Thinking Foundation a background that includes academic, technological and corporate experience. As a Senior Advisor to the Thinking Foundation, Dr. Lauber works on helping transform information into knowledge using the latest brain based visual tools that are supported by the foundation. Dr. Lauber serves as an advisor to Mater Cards Senior Advisory group on financial literacy and was recently appointed to the Education Committee of Jump$tart.
As Superintendent of Schools in Elmont, New York, he initiated programs to meet the needs of a diverse student population while stabilizing the district's long-range fiscal plans. Under his administration, state-of-the-art computer assisted instructional programs, as well as innovative writing and mathematics programs were put into place. During his tenure as superintendent of the Levittown, New York School District, Dr. Lauber implemented plans to restructure the K-7, 8-12 grade organization. As President and CEO of Purewater Sciences and Melric Technologies he developed a corporate perspective on what schools must provide children to prepare children for success in the workplace.
That perspective is evident in the programs he implemented in South Huntington Schools. South Huntington continues working to change the culture of the classroom with a comprehensive instruction initiative that integrates technology and learning. The program placed 5 computers in every classroom and was supported by professional development that focused on recognizing the individual needs of learners and their need to master higher order thinking skills on a daily basis. He developed innovative financing for technology that provided over 1300 computers for distribution to the community. In times of fiscal austerity, Dr. Lauber has worked closely with many communities to infuse money into educational programs and to place the focus of all activities on learning rather than teaching.
Dr. Lauber, in his role as Director of Teaching Financial Literacy Education, worked with members of the government and finance community helping to define options for school districts to implement financial literacy in their classrooms. Dr. Lauber recently testified before the House Sub Committee on Financial Services and has conducted forums across New York State on Teaching Financial Literacy. Lauber's writings have appeared in Electronic School, THE Journal, American School Boards Journal, New York Slate Education, Viewpoints, Newsday and other publications and cover topics such as the development of textbook adoption policy to community-based school security programs and space age astronomy. Dr. Lauber co-authored Writing as Learning and Writing for Mathematics and makes numerous presentations for school districts across the country.
In addition to Dr. Lauber’s experience as an educator he was incident commander of the support team for K-9 search and rescue at Ground Zero. He coauthored an article Field Treatment of Search Dogs: Lessons learned and questions raised from the World Trade Center Disaster.
He has served as Science Education Instructor at Iona College, studied at the Hayden Planetarium under a National Science Foundation grant, lectured at Columbia University and New York University, was a Degrees of Reading Power consultant to the College Boards, and is past Director of the Hofstra University Arboretum, a past Director of REFIT, a former Director of the National Urban Alliance, and a Director of the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Dr. Lauber was featured as one of the nation's exemplary principals in a 1984 Ladies Home Journal article "The Principal's Principle."
Dr. Lauber has a BS in Education from SUNY New Paltz, an MA and MED in School Administration from Teachers College and an Ed.D. in Systems Administration from New York University.