2009–10 Lecture

Karen E. Bohlin, Ed.D.

Monday, Oct. 26, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Stretansky Concert Hall
Cunningham Center for Music

Karen Bohlin is head of the Montrose School in Medfield, Mass., and senior scholar at Boston University’s Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character (CAEC). Before serving as head of school, she was the executive director of the CAEC and assistant professor of education at Boston University’s School of Education. She is co-author with Kevin Ryan of the widely acclaimed book, Building Character in Schools (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999) and its companion professional development handbook, The Building Character in Schools Resource Guide (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001).

A former high English teacher, her most recent book is Teaching Character Education Through Literature: Awakening the Moral Imagination in Secondary Classrooms (London: Routledge, 2005). She has served as a member of the National Schools of Character Blue Ribbon Panel, the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE), the National Commission on Character Education, and the National Experts Panel on Character Education in High Schools. A guest on National Public Radio’s Merrow Report and NBC’s Early Show, she has also been interviewed for Parents Magazine, US News and World Report, Reader’s Digest, New York Times, Boston Globe, Newsweek, and Ladies Home Journal. Bohlin has worked with schools, universities, educational corporations and state departments of education. She has led countless professional development programs for educational leaders both here and in several countries abroad including England, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Japan.