Glenn M. Kleiman
Executive Director

Glenn Kleiman is Executive Director of the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation and Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the NC State University College of Education. A cognitive psychologist by background (Ph.D., Stanford, 1977), his work in education has spanned basic and applied research, curriculum development, software development, providing professional development for teachers and administrators, policy analyses, and consulting for school districts and state departments of education. Prior to joining NC State in July 2007, he was, since 1985, Vice President and Senior Research Scientist at Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) in Newton MA, where he most recently directed the Center for Online Professional Education and was Co-Director of the Northeast and Islands Regional Education Lab.  Previously at EDC, he directed the development of the MathScape: Seeing and Thinking Mathematically in the Middle Grades curriculum, which was funded by NSF and published by Glencoe/McGraw Hill, as well as many other projects in educational technology and mathematics education.  He was also on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1995-2007 and was educational chair of the Harvard/EDC Leadership and the New Technologies Institutes, held each summer at Harvard from 1997-2001.  Dr. Kleiman has also been a faculty member in psychology and in education at the University of Illinois, the University of Toronto, and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE); a senior researcher at the National Center for the Study of Reading; and founder and president of Teaching Tools Software, Inc.