Barnett Berry is the Founder and President of the Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ), Inc., based in Carrboro, North Carolina. Created in1999, CTQ seeks to dramatically improve student learning by advancing teaching as a 21st century, results-oriented profession.
 
A former high school teacher, Barnett has worked as a social scientist at the RAND Corporation, served as a senior executive with the South Carolina Department of Education, and directed an education policy center while he was a professor at the University of South Carolina. Barnett has authored numerous academic reports and many articles for the popular education press on the future of teaching and learning in 21st century schools and the importance of teacher leadership. He frequently serves in an advisory capacity to organizations committed to teaching quality, equity and social justice in America's schools. His new book, TEACHING 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools … Now and in the Future, penned with 12 expert teachers from CTQ’s Teacher Leaders Network poses a provocative and hopeful future for the profession that makes all others possible. His areas of expertise span the education pipeline from preparing effective teachers to evaluating and rewarding teaching effectiveness.

Meredith, Barnett’s wife of 34 years, is a special education teacher in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. They are the proud parents of Joseph, a community organizer for the Working Families Party (New York City), and Evan, who is now pursuing a passionate interest in sustainable agriculture in Olympia, Washington.

December 2011

Read Barnett Berry's Curriculum Vitae

Selected Works and Recent Publications

Past as Prologue: A Historical Overview of Teaching in America (2011)

Teacherpreneurs: A More Powerful Vision for the Teaching Profession March 2011

Teaching 2030: A Brief Look to a Hopeful Tomorrow - January 2011

Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools (Order Now from Amazon)

Briefing Paper in Support of NCATE's Reseacrh: Teacher Education for Tomorrow

Getting “Real” About Teaching Effectiveness and Teacher Retention

Strengthening State Teacher Licensure Standards to Advance Teaching Effectiveness - May 2010

A Better System for Schools: Developing, Supporting and Retaining Effective Teachers - For Teachers Network, February 2010

The Teachers of 2030 - September 2009

Children of Poverty Deserve Great Teachers - For the National Education Association, September 2009

Ending the Battles Over Teaching - A May 2009 Education Week commentary that surfaces emerging insights from TeacherSolutions 2030.

Teacher Working Conditions: Using Data, Changing Teaching - With TLN Member Carolann Wade and principal Paula Trantham, Barnett Berry surfaces the impact of using teacher working conditions data in a North Carolina school's transformation. Educational Leadership, December 2008/January 2009, vol. 66, no. 4.

The Future of the Teaching Profession - A PDK EDge article that imagines the possibility for transforming teaching and learning, November/December 2008, 4(2). 1-20.

Staffing high needs schools: Insights from the nation's best teachers -- A report emerging from a series of summits engaging National Board Certified Teachers in Phi Delta Kappan, 90(4), June 2008.

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and the future of a profession -- An examination of latest research regarding certification published by the NBPTS in 2008.

Lessons from networking -- A feature article by Barnett Berry, Ann Byrd, and John Norton in Educational Leadership, Vol. 64, No 1, September 2007.

The reauthorization of No Child Left Behind: Views from the nation's best teachers -- A collaborative report including embedded podcasts with the voices of the Teacher Leaders Network, September 2007.

Linking teacher and student data to improve teacher and teaching quality -- A report prepared for the National Center for Educational Accountability, Data Quality Campaign, March 2007.

Highly qualified teachers for all -- An article by Linda Darling-Hammond and Barnett Berry in Educational Leadership, Vol 64, No 3, November 2006. Read the abstract or purchase the article.

Invest in great teachers -- A special by Barnett Berry published in the News & Observer, September 2006.

Learn from the masters -- An article by Barnett Berry and John Norton published in Edutopia, June 2006.

Opening classroom doors with teachers who can teach -- A response by Barnett Berry to Nicholas Kristof's opinion piece, submitted to the New York Times, April 2006.

Why we do not support new teachers - And what can be done about it -- An essay on induction by Barnett Berry, May 2006.

Teacher quality and the question of preparation -- Commentary by Barnett Berry in Education Week, Vol 25, No. 8, Pages 32, 34-35.

The power of teacher leadership -- An article by Barnett Berry, Dylan Johnson and Diana Montgomery in Educational Leadership, Vol. 62, No. 5, pages 56-60. Read the abstract or purchase the article.

The good high school teacher -- By Barnett Berry, Prepared for the North Carolina New School Project.

Recruiting and retaining National Board Certified Teachers for hard-to-staff, low-performing schools: Silver
bullets or smart solutions -- A policy paper by Barnett Berry and Tammy King.

Closing the student achievement gap by closing the teaching quality gap: Reframing the debate -- A research brief presented at the National Education Association Visiting Scholars Series by Barnett Berry, April 2005.

Taking action to improve teaching quality: Addressing shortcomings in the Teaching Commission report -- A response to Teaching at Risk: A Call to Action by the Teaching Commission.