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Marvin W. Berkowitz, PhD

Sanford N. McDonnell Endowed Professor of Character Education; Co-Director of the Center for Character and Citizenship; President’s Thomas Jefferson Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Founding Co-Editor, Journal for Research in Character Education; Member, Board of Directors, Character.org; Former Board Member of the John Templeton Foundation, Jean Piaget Society, and the Association for Moral Education; Author, PRIMED for Character Education: Six Design Principles for School Improvement (2021) and Parenting for Good (2005); Co-Author, “Changing the Character of Schools: Promoting Servant Leadership Virtues to Solve Internationally Relevant Problems in Education” (2024, The Routledge International Handbook of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Character Development) and “Advancing the Science of Character Education: Twenty Plus Years of Reviewing the Literature in Character Education” (2023, Second International Research Handbook on Values Education and Student Wellbeing); Editor, Moral Education (1985)

Events

Teaching Stronger Brains

Fairmont San Francisco or Virtually via Zoom  February 20-22, 2025

OPTION A

The Science of Character: PRIMED for Changing the Character of Schools