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Getting Our Best Teachers Where They Are Needed Most: A WestEd Invitational Regional Conference
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Barnett Berry
Founder and President
Southeast Center for Teaching Quality, Inc.
976 Airport Road, Suite 250
Chapel Hill, NC  27514
bberry@teachingquality.org

Biography
Barnett Berry is Founder and President of the Southeast Center for Teaching Quality, Inc., which creates and disseminates effective teaching policies, conducts timely research on teacher quality matters, and promotes teacher leadership. In the mid- to late 1990s, Berry was key to developing the blue ribbon report of the National Commission on Teaching & America's Future. He then directed the Commission's state policy and partnership efforts to help states analyze and strengthen their teaching policies. Berry has taught in an urban high school, worked as a social scientist at the RAND Corporation, served as a senior executive in the South Carolina State Department of Education, and directed an education policy center while he was a professor at the University of South Carolina. Berry has authored more than 80 journal articles, book chapters, and commissioned reports on school reform, accountability, and the teaching profession.

Session Speaker:
Pay-for-Performance: Compensating Excellent Teachers for Professional Growth and Improved Student Performance
General Session: Systemic Solutions Panel

Resources Related to Barnett Berry:
Considerations on Pay for Performance and Teacher Professionalism
Making Good on What Matters Most: A Review of Teaching at Risk: A Call to Action
Recruiting and Retaining "Highly Qualified Teachers" for Hard-to-Staff Schools
Top Ten Ways to Think Systemically About Teacher Development

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