Board of Trustees

List of 8 items.

• Eric Jablin - Board Chairman

  Email: ejablin@gmail.com
  
  Eric Jablin was born March 9, 1942 in New York City.  He attended Horace Mann Preparatory School and New York University.  He began his business career in 1963 and has owned several businesses in New York and Florida.  Eric and his wife Abby have been residents of Palm Beach Gardens since 1987 and have two children Matthew 43 and Rachel, 40 both of whom attended Palm Beach County Public Schools.

   

  Eric has been active in community affairs ever since he moved to Florida. From 1987 to 1992 he served as co-chair of the North County Airport Citizens Committee and the ad hoc citizens committee to fight the expansion of Jog Road through PGA National.  Eric successfully negotiated the Jog Road Agreement with the County which laid the groundwork for any future closings of Ryder Cup Blvd..  Eric was one of the original founders of CAN! (Community Awareness Network) in PGA National where he lives and served as president of that organization until he stepped down to pursue his political career.  He was elected to the Palm Beach Gardens City Council in 1992.  He became Vice Mayor from 2000 to 2002 and was elected Mayor in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2008.  He was the Council liaison to the City’s Art in Public Places Board and after his retirement from the City Council was appointed to the Art in Public Places Board and today serves as the Chairman. Eric currently serves on the board of the Weiss School and the Alzheimer Community Care Foundation.

• Grant Gisondo - Trustee

• Jacqueline Crowley-Farkas - Trustee

• Martha Lamphere - Trustee

• Steven Stoller - Trustee

• Thomas Clark - Trustee

• Elisabeth Weiss - Trustee

  Trustee Elisabeth Weiss is co-founder of the Weiss School, and was its first Head of School, overseeing all curriculum, planning, training, and enrollment. In that role, she successfully built the School from a one-room classroom of eight students in 1989 to a beacon of gifted education in Palm Beach County less than ten years later.

   

  Mrs. Weiss created a unique learning environment combining a thematic curriculum that integrated multiple subjects and leading edge technology. She was the first in the county to introduce a cross-disciplinary thematic approach to the curriculum and the first in the nation to establish Tae Kwon Do as a primary focus of physical education.

   

  In addition, she dedicated 12 years to serving as the School’s psychologist and counselor, helping hundreds of students achieve success during their years at the Weiss School.

   

  Mrs. Weiss holds an Elementary School Teacher’s Degree from Instituto Educacional Sud Mennucci of Brazil, a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from New York University, and a Gifted Certification from South Florida University.

   

  She is fluent in Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish in addition to English.
  
  She currently has three of her grandchildren attending The Weiss School.

   

• Dr. Martin D. Weiss - Trustee Emeritus

  Dr. Martin D. Weiss, co-founder of The Weiss School and now a Trustee Emeritus of the Board, has dedicated his life to education of all age groups. As an American teenager growing up in Brazil, he organized and taught tutorial classes for fellow high school students in English, and Portuguese grammar, math and biology. After returning to the U.S., he joined the Berlitz School of Languages and became that school’s youngest instructor in its history, helping to develop its globally acclaimed Total Immersion method for teaching foreign languages. And later, by designing dozens of custom books for infants, he taught his son to read in two languages by the age of three.
  
  With this personal experience in education, Dr. Weiss went on to create two companies — Weiss Research to educate adults about the global economy and The Weiss School to educate gifted children. And today, both have been a success — the former serving 600,000 loyal readers and the latter providing the gifted education that has been so widely acclaimed in the South Florida community. Dr. Weiss holds a bachelor’s degree from New York University and a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Columbia University. He is fluent in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, English and other languages.