Dr. Barbara Presseisen retired as Chief Education Officer and Vice President of Education at Nobel Learning Communities, Inc. in 1999 and serves as the Chair Emeritus of the NLC educational advisory board.

During her career, Dr. Presseisen trained many educators in critical thinking and problem solving, and edited various publications on the teaching of thinking, Holocaust education, and reasoning in history and social studies instruction. Her work includes a series on thinking skills for elementary students, published volumes Learning and Thinking Styles, At Risk Students and Thinking, and Unlearned Lessons: Current and Past Reforms for School Improvement. She has taught at Swarthmore College and Temple University and serves on several boards and advisory organizations.

In her retirement Dr. Presseisen is volunteering at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the National Constitution Center, Philadelphia Jewish Community Relations Council and at the K-8 Library for a Charter School in Philadelphia.