Who We Are

K12 Associates specializes in helping schools build welcoming climates where adults and students gain the skills to siginificantly reduce bullying, harassment, and other antisocial behaviors.

 Brian Koenig, M.S.

Brian Koenig, M.S., is the President of K12 Associates. He has been a trainer, speaker, and consultant since 1983 and has worked with more than 100 districts to prevent antisocial behaviors at school. 

Starting in 1998, Brian developed and implemented The Keep It Safe Project, a five-year pilot program to prevent bullying and other antisocial behaviors in three Wisconsin school districts, funded by the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault (WCASA).  Through this project he discovered that in order to significantly reduce bullying, school districts needed to improve the overall climate of their schools.  School districts that over-emphasized bully, victim, bystander programs without looking at the broader climate saw little or no decrease in bullying behavior.

In 2003 he followed up The Keep It Safe Project with a new pilot called A Climate of Respect.  This work was also funded by WCASA with additional funding from The Centers for Disease Control.  From this grant Brian wrote the guidebook called Creating a Climate of Respect, and then a follow-up ebook.

In collaboration with Melissa A. Keyes, Ph.D. and Dorothy Espelage, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois, he developed a set of popular school climate surveys currently used by more than 75,000 students, in 50 school districts nationwide.

Brian is a graduate instructor at Viterbo University of LaCrosse Wisconsin.  He has been a presenter at the Wisconsin School Counselors Conference, Association of Wisconsin School Administrators Conference, the Standards of the Heart Conference, and various other state and regional conferences.

He has co-authored articles published in a variety academic journals, primarily in collaboration with Dr. Espelage at the University of Illinois.

Feel free to email Brian for more information