Dr. Karl H. Clauset

Senior Educational Consultant

Dr. Karl H. Clauset is a consultant with BKL & Associates and is also director of the National Center for School Change, formerly the National Whole Faculty Study Group (WFSG) Center.  He is also an experienced school improvement coach and trainer. Since 1999, he has helped more than 150 elementary, middle, and high schools launch systems of purposeful teacher collaboration.

As a faculty member at the Boston University School of Education, he taught graduate courses in educational policy analysis, organizational analysis, and planning.  He began his educational career as a teacher and administrator at the Jakarta International School in Indonesia and taught in secondary schools in Philadelphia, Zambia, and Tanzania. Before moving to Washington in 2003, Dr. Clauset served as an elected school board member and board chair for six years in his Massachusetts community.

Dr. Clauset holds an EdD in Educational Leadership from Boston University and received a national award from ASCD for his dissertation on the dynamics of effective and ineffective schooling.  He also coauthored two books with Dale Lick and Carlene Murphy, Schools Can Change: A Step-by-Step Change Creation System for Building Innovative Schools and Increasing Student Learning (2012) and Schoolwide Action Research for Professional Learning Communities: Improving Student Learning Through the Whole-Faculty Study Groups Approach (2008).