Blair Inabinet set out to learn how other schools had successfully managed character education programs, but she found no body of research. Her goal became finding other school leaders who had seen character development or character strengthening programs from concept to implementation, determining what they had done and looking for patterns consistent among those principals. 

Throughout her 14-year teaching career, Nicole Henderson ’22 observed that most teachers have or had students in their classrooms dealing with home-based trauma. And as these students struggle with burdens that no child should have to bear, their teachers struggle with how to help them.  

View the completed dissertations from the doctoral program for the 2021-2022 academic year.