Leadership

David B. Wangaard, Ed.D. 
President and Director of The School for Ethical Education.

​Prior to earning his doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Northern Colorado, David was a K-12 school principal in Alaska. He has been applying his character education strategies in schools since 1984.

​Dr. Wangaard has taught junior high and high school math, sponsored student councils and student led community service projects, coached track, co-lead student foreign travel and led summer wilderness canoeing trips. Dr. Wangaard brings these eclectic interests to SEE recognizing how ethics and character are promoted in a variety of learning environments.

​While at SEE, he has successfully presented at the national meetings of ASCD, Character.org, the National Character Education Convention in St. Louis and the Search Institute's Healthy Communities: Healthy Youth Conference, International Center for Academic Integrity and internationally at an EARCOS Character Education seminar in Bangkok, Thailand.  Dr. Wangaard is an instructor for SEE courses and taught for 20 years as a university adjunct instructor and has facilitated regional character education conferences. While working at SEE, he has authored or co-authored three teacher/student workbooks to support character education and three book chapters. Since 1999, David has also been a consultant for Character.org (formally the Character Education Partnership) and has been an evaluator for Character.org's National Schools of Character Program and in 2011 was named to their Educational Advisory Council.

David can be reached by email at [email protected]
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​​Ethics in action creates character