Bob Algozzine currently teaches in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has been a special education classroom teacher and college professor for more than 35 years in public schools and universities in New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Florida, and North Carolina, and he is currently the director of the Behavior and Reading Improvement Center at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Textbooks he has written are used in teacher preparation courses around the country. He has been a featured speaker at local, state, national, and international professional conferences and is widely recognized as an expert on effective teaching and special education research.