Nissan Bar-Lev

Nissan Bar-Lev is the Director of Special Education for Cooperative Educational Service Agency # 7, a consortium of 38 school districts, and is one of 3 partners in the Wisconsin Special Education Mediation System. Nissan serves on the Executive Board of the Wisconsin Council of Administrators of Special Services, and co-chairs the Special Projects Committee. He is also a member of the national Council of Administrators of Special Education Board of Directors. Nissan serves on the Governor’s Council on Autism, is the past president of the Autism Society of Wisconsin, and former member of the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance Autism Council. Nissan also chairs the State Superintendent Blind and Visual Impairment Education Council. He is a member of the Wisconsin PBIS Advisory Council and a member of the National IDEA Partnership Creating Agreement team. Nissan served on the Wisconsin State Superintendents Council on Exceptional Education, Wisconsin Governor’s Council on Youth Apprenticeship, Wisconsin Governor’s Council on Work Force Excellence and the Governor’s task force on statewide assessment of Children with Disabilities. He is a co-author of Special Education in Plain Language.