Kris Bosworth, Ph.D.
University of Arizona College of Education
Kris Bosworth, Ph.D. is an emeritus professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Program (EDLP) in the Department of the College of Education at the University of Arizona. Since 1998, she has held the Smith Endowed Chair in Prevention and Education. Click here for the final report on the Smith Chair activities.
Dr. Bosworth’s overarching scholarship and practice focus on prevention and school safety grounded in environmental school-based approaches. Her model Protective Schools focuses on creating and maintaining school and classroom climates that are protective and supportive of positive youth development. Click here for information about Protective Schools.
Dr. Bosworth provides leadership on a set of projects and state and federal grants dealing directly with school leaders, school mental health personnel, school resource officers, teachers, and youth. Click here to see a list of major grants that have led to the development of the Arizona S3 Model for school climate change. Click here to see the Arizona S3 Model.
She is the lead author of the Drug Prevention module of the State Department-funded Universal Prevention Curriculum (UPC) and has trained prevention professionals internationally on school-based prevention interventions. Click here to learn more about the UPC.
Dr. Bosworth has served on numerous federally and state-sponsored expert and technical review panels addressing various issues in the field of school-based prevention. Recently she was the writing team leader for the Arizona Department of Education School Safety Task Force, where she created a Comprehensive School Safety Plan Checklist. Click here for the CSSPC.
Previously, Dr. Bosworth was a research scientist at the Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on the faculty in the School of Education at Indiana University where she directed the Center for Adolescent Studies and a Visiting Scientist on the Youth Violence Prevention team at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
She is the author of more than a dozen multimedia and video programs for young people with subjects including AIDS, alcohol and drugs, sexuality, and violence. These projects have earned awards from the American Medical Association National Congress on Adolescent Health (1989) and the Society for Technology and Teacher Education (1992), as well as the Exemplary Substance Abuse Prevention Programs Award from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) (2000).
In this interview, Dr. Bosworth discusses the Protective Schools approach to school climate. Click the arrow below to listen to her interview.
For more information on specific projects, check out the links below!
