Jonathan Cohen

Jonathan Cohen, PhD is an educator-clinician who has worked with K-12 students, educators and parents since 1974 as a middle school special educator, school psychologist, professional development facilitator, and school climate improvement leader/learner.  He is also the co-founder and president of the National School Climate Center: Educating Minds and Hearts Because the Three R’s Are Not Enough.  He is an adjunct professor in psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University and a practicing clinical psychologist.

Jonathan consults to school districts and state departments of education.  He has been involved in President Obama’s Federal Bully Prevention Partnership and the United Nation’s Children’s Fund on social, emotional and civic learning, bully prevention, student leadership and school climate improvement efforts.  He is the author of many papers and books, including the award-winning Educating Minds and Hearts: Social Emotional Learning and the Passage Into Adolescence, and Caring Classrooms / Intelligent Schools: The Social Emotional Education of Young Children.  He is co-author, with Maurice Elias, of the laminated reference guide, School Climate: Building Safe, Supportive and Engaging Classrooms & Schools, published by National Professional Resources, Inc./Dude Publishing.