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Prof. Scott Seider
Boston University SED Room 237
2 Silber Way
Boston, MA, 02215
seider@bu.edu
(617) 353-3223

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Scott Seider is an associate professor of education at Boston University where his research focuses on the role of schools in fostering adolescents' civic and character development. Dr. Seider has reported on this work in more than 60 academic publications including Character Compass: How Powerful School Culture Can Point Students Toward Success (2012), which won the American Educational Research Association's outstanding book award in moral development and education.

Dr. Seider's current work investigates the development of critical consciousness in adolescents attending a diverse set of urban high schools. Initial findings from this work have been published in Teachers College Record, Journal of Youth & Adolescence, and Applied Developmental Science. In a 2016 "Faculti" interview, Dr. Seider explains how critical consciousness is an important complement to non-academic skills such as grit.

Before joining the Boston University faculty, Dr. Seider worked as an English and literacy teacher in the Boston and Westwood (MA) Public Schools. He earned an Ed.D. in Human Development & Psychology from Harvard University and an A.B. in English & American Literature from Harvard College.