Barnett Berry is a researcher and consultant focused on school redesign and teaching preparation and practice. He is currently working with school districts, states, and philanthropies focused on reinventing schools. Berry is a Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute and a Senior Advisor for the Center for Reimagining Education at the University of Kansas.

He has been a high school teacher, social scientist, professor of education, and senior leader at state education agencies. His work with the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future spurred his founding of the Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ) in 1999, a non-profit he led for 20 years to advance a bold brand of teacher leadership essential for an effective and equitable system of public education.

He is the author of Teaching 2030: What we Must do for our Students and our Public Schools…Now and in the Future (2010), Teacherpreneurs: Innovative Teachers who Lead but Don't Leave (2013), and the Teaching Improvement Agenda (2024). His forthcoming book is "The Future of Public Education: One District's Journey to Transform Schools and Systems" (2026), which focuses on the redesign work conducted in Anaheim Union High School District (CA).

In 2021, Berry received the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards James A. Kelly Award for Advancing Accomplished Teaching.

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