About

Larry Anderson started his career in education at CCNY, City College of New York, Baruch School of Business. While earning his BBA degree in Management and captaining the school’s varsity basketball team, he volunteered at nearby Bellevue Hospital in the Pediatric Recreation Department. His services and responsibilities ran the gamut from engaging with hospitalized children presenting with serious medical, surgical, orthopedic, and social-emotional-behavioral challenges…and he decided then and there to leave the business world behind.

Larry subsequently earned a Master’s Degree in Educational Psychology/Special Education at NYU (New York University) and then a post-Master’s credential in LDT/C (Learning Disabilities Teacher Consultant) from Montclair (NJ) State College. He further completed an additional post-Master’s program in Administrative and Supervisory Studies at Montclair.

He holds district level and building level certifications in teaching and administration in the states of New York and New Jersey and has headed outstanding schools and programs in prestigious school districts in the suburbs of Larchmont/Mamaroneck and Pleasantville in Westchester County, North Bellmore and Wantagh in Nassau County, and ESBOCES in Suffolk County. While at Eastern Suffolk BOCES Larry provided exceptional grant funded educational consulting services to the non-public special education schools on Long Island where he focused on targeted professional development (PD), staff workshops on a variety of contemporary topics, and Quality Improvement Plans (QIP) in schools that serviced at-risk and high-risk student populations. He has also been a highly regarded Adjunct Professor in Special Education in the Graduate School of Education at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.

His broad experience in public, private, independent, BOCES, and faith-based school programs in general and special education- in both suburban and urban settings- and his deep knowledge of teaching, curriculum, clinical services, and school leadership make him particularly empathetic to the needs and challenges of educators and learners in today’s world.

Larry knew he made the right decision to go into the profession of education from the very start at the age of 24 on his wedding day. His entire first class of special needs students and their families travelled from New Jersey to the United Nations Chapel in NYC to surprise him and cheer him on with the chant “We want Mr. Anderson!” Fast forward and now Larry and his wife are the proud parents of two loving and accomplished daughters and recently the proud grandparents of two spirited little girls. Mr. A. is an avid reader, lifelong learner, recreational golfer, and frequent traveler to Charleston, South Carolina.