Dr. Karen Bohlin is head of the Montrose School in Medfield, MA 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).

Dr. Bohlin is co-editor with James Arthur of Citizenship and Higher Education  (Kogan Page: London, UK 2004) and co-editor with Bernice Lerner of Great Lives, Vital Lessons (Chapel Hill: Character Development Group, 2005).  She has published articles in the Journal of the Association of Teacher Education, Education Week, the Journal of Education, CHARACTER and is a contributor to Moral Education: A Handbook (Praeger: Westport, 2008). 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.

Dr. 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.