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Mr. Gagliardi has just begun his twelfth year at Cherry Hill East, where he is advisor of the award-winning school newspaper, Eastside*; the Class of 2012 and the Sports Debate Club. He was also an advisor for the Class of 2008. Outside of club roles, he is a clock operator for home basketball games, the PA announcer for home football games and a chaperone for the past five Habitat for Humanity spring-break trips to Louisiana, South Carolina and Mississippi.

Gagliardi is a graduate of Boston College's School of Education Honors Program. While he was at BC, he served as School of Education Senate President, a member of the School of Education Ambassadors Program, a newspaper editor for three years and a resident assistant for two years, among other roles. He delivered the school's commencement address in May of 2000 and won the Rev. Wennerberg Award for campus and school leadership.

Outside of East, Gagliardi writes for multiple publications, and his humor column (Progressive Revelations) appears on hundreds of websites and blogs, as well as in a book consisting of the best of the early years (entitled Hiding Newspapers on Zebras), which was published in February of 2006. He was featured in Reader's Digest magazine as one of five Americans who uses humor in the workplace, and has been featured/awarded by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Cornell University, the College of New Jersey, the New Jersey Press Foundation and Who's Who. In 2008, he was inducted into the Cherry Hill East Cum Laude Society.

Gagliardi is a member of multiple teaching and writing organizations, as well as Mensa, the IQ Society. He enjoys sports, music, running, word games and trivia, and is a big fan of multi-tasking.

* Eastside was rated the #1 school newspaper in NJ by the Garden State Scholastic Press Association in three of the past four years; the #1 sports coverage in the nation by the American Scholastic Press Association in three of the past eleven years; and the #1 editorial in the nation by the American Scholastic Press Association in three of the past eight years, in addition to over 200 individual awards.