Howard Adelman—Co-director and Professor, School Mental Health Project, Center for Mental Health in Schools, Department of Psychology, UCLA

Janice E. Arnold-Jones—Radio Host New Mexico Now (former, Representative House District 24, Albuquerque, New Mexico)

Marvin Berkowitz—Sanford N. McDonnell Endowed Professor of Character Education and Co-director, Center for Character & Citizenship, College of Education, University of Missouri, St. Louis

Cathryn Berger Kaye—CBK Associates, International Education Consultants

Martin J. Blank—Director for School, Family and Community Connections Institute for Educational Leadership Staff Director, Coalition for Community Schools

Matthew J. Bundick—Director of Research, Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations, Portland, ME

Philip M. Brown—Director, Center for Social and Character Development, Center for Applied Psychology, Rutgers University, NJ

Samuel Chaltain—National educator and organizational change consultant (formerly, National Director of the Forum for Education and Democracy founding director, Five Freedoms Project, Washington, DC

William Cirone—County Superintendent, Santa Barbara County Education Office, Santa Barbara, CA

Jonathan Cohen—President, National School Climate Center; Adjunct Professor in Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University; Adjunct Professor in Education, City University of New York, School of Professional Studies; Co-chair, National School Climate Council

James P. Comer—Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Founder, School Development Program, Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine

Brad Efune—student leader—Freshman, University of Arizona

Lou Ann Evans—Member, State College Area School District, PA

Arnold F. Fege—Director, Public Engagement and Advocacy, Public Education Network, Washington, DC

Ann Foster—Executive Director, National Network for Educational Renewal

Laura Franzi—student leader—senior William Paterson University

H. Jerome Freiberg—John & Rebecca Moores Professor of Education, University of Houston

Jo Ann Freiberg—Consultant for School Climate, Bullying and Character Education, Connecticut State Department of Education

Ann Higgins-D'Alessandro, Ph.D.—Director and Professor, Applied Psychology Doctoral Program, Fordham University, Bronx, New York.

Gary A. Homana—College of Education Towson University

David Hutchinson—School board member, State College Area School District

William H. Hughes—Superintendent, Greendale School District, Greendale, WI

Peter S. Jensen—Co-Chair and professor, Division of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; President, REACH Institute (REsource for Advancing Children’s Health)

Joseph Mazzola—President & CEO, Character Education Partnership

Molly McCloskey—Managing Director, Whole Child Programs, ASCD

Linda Jeanne McKay—National Advocate for Support of Character Education and School Climate; former Senior Advisor to the Deputy Under Secretary, Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools for Character Education, U.S Department of Education

Kim McLaughlin—Director, Student Support Services Center, Genesee Valley BOCES, New York

Nicholas Michelli—Presidential Professor in Urban Education, Doctoral Program in Urban Education, City University of New York

Carol Nixon, Ph.D.—Senior Research and Evaluation Specialist, Edvantia, Charleston, West Virginia.

Derek Peterson—International Child/Youth Advocate

Terry Pickeral—Founder and partner, Cascade Consulting; former Executive Director, National Center for Learning and Citizenship (NCLC) at the Education Commission of the States;Co-chair, National School Climate Council

Randy Ross—Equity & Diversity Specialist, New England Equity Assistance Center, The Education Alliance at Brown University

Mary Lou Rush—Ohio State Innovation Lab Coordinator, Stupski Foundation (former, Executive Director, Center for Students, Families and Communities, Ohio State Department of Education)

Margaret Jo Shepherd—Emeritus Professor Teachers College, Columbia University

Linda Taylor—Co-director, School Mental Health Project Center for Mental Health in Schools, Department of Psychology, UCLA

Ron Tupa—Director of State Legislatures, Democrats for Education Reform

Paul Vierling—State of Hawaii

Yu Jenny Zhong—Student leader sophomore, University of Pennsylvania

The School Climate Council is grateful for the contributions of the following former council member:

Victor Battistich (deceased) Associate Professor, Center for Character & Citizenship, College of Education, University of Missouri, St. Louis