Karen Siris

Karen Siris, Ed.D, an American educator, is a principal of an Oceanside, New York elementary school, an adjunct professor at Adelphi University in the area of Educational Leadership and a nationally recognized expert on bullying prevention. With Lisa Roth, she is the author of "Stand Up," a children's book that acquaints children with the perniciousness of bullying and offers those "bystanding" children, who watch and do nothing to stop the bullying, strategies to stop the unkindness by "standing up" for their peers, as the title suggests. She presents workshops to teachers, administrators and concerned parents across the country about bullying prevention and intervention.
Following New York's 2012 enactment of the "Dignity for All Students Act," she was appointed by School Administrators Association of New York State (SAANYS) to represent them on the New York State Task force for implementation of the law, and now serves on the New York State Safe Schools Task Force.
Born in Port Washington, NY, she graduated from Schreiber High School in 1968, obtained her undergraduate degree at Boston University, her MA in Literacy from New York University and her Ed.D in Educational Leadership at Hofstra University. Her doctoral thesis, "Using Action Research to Alleviate Bullying,", received the H. Alan Robinson Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award and became the springboard for her work on ways to combat bullying. In addition, she is the author of various other publications, most of which concern effective bullying prevention and intervention. She lives in Roslyn, New York and is married to the attorney Michael Siris.

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