Larry Leverett

Credit: Courtesy of Larry Leverett

National Advisory Council member Larry Leverett [1] is executive director of the Panasonic Foundation [2], whose mission is to improve learning for all students in public school systems that have a high percentage of children in poverty. Prior to that, Leverett was a school superintendent in Greenwich, Connecticut.

His career in education has included urban and suburban experiences as a classroom teacher, an elementary school principal, an assistant superintendent, a school board member, an assistant state commissioner of education, and fifteen years as superintendent in three school districts.

Leverett has also been a mentor superintendent of doctoral interns enrolled in the Harvard University Graduate School of Education's Urban Superintendents program [3]. He holds degrees from Virginia State College and Teachers College at Columbia University.

He wrote or is featured in the following Edutopia content:
• A Superintendent Supports Emotional Intelligence: Making the Connection Between Academics and Emotions [4]
• Engaging the Public: A Superintendent's View [5]
• Are Teacher Unions the Problem?: A Clear Look at a Cloudy Issue [6]
• Closing the Achievement Gap: "All Children Can Learn" [7]
• Everybody's In, Everybody Wins: A Superintendent's Approach to Community Engagement [8]
• On Educating Educators: Top Training Is the Bottom Line [9]
• Reaching Performance Parity: A Shared Reality About the Achievement Gap [10]
• Superintendents in Action: One Small Step Toward Reform, One Giant Leap for Students [11]