Barnett Berry

Barnett Berry is a researcher and consultant focused on school redesign, teacher preparation, and teaching practice. He is a senior research fellow at the Learning Policy Institute and a senior consultant with the Center for Reimagining Education at the University of Kansas. A former high school teacher, social scientist, professor of education, and state education agency leader, Berry founded the Center for Teaching Quality in 1999 and led the nonprofit for 20 years.

Berry is the author of Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools—Now and in the Future and Teacherpreneurs: Innovative Teachers Who Lead but Don’t Leave. He is also a co-author, with Mike Matsuda and Michael Fullan, of The Future of Public Education: One District’s Journey to Transform Schools and Systems, which examines the transformation of California’s Anaheim Union High School District.