Barnett Berry is a research professor at the University of South Carolina, where he is the founding director of Accelerating for Learning and Leadership for South Carolina (ALL4SC) — an initiative launched in 2019, to marshal the resources of an entire R1 institution of higher education in service of high need school communities. Barnett’s career includes serving as a high school teacher, a social scientist at the RAND Corporation, a professor at UofSC (in the 1990s), a senior state education agency leader, and senior consultant with the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, leading its state partnership network. From 1999 to 2018, Barnett led Center for Teaching Quality website, a non-profit he founded to conduct research and ignite teacher leadership to transform the teaching profession and public education for more equitable outcomes for students. Barnett has authored a wide array of over 120 policy and research reports, journal articles, and commissioned papers. His two books, TEACHING 2030 and Teacherpreneurs: Innovative Teachers Who Lead But Don't Leave, frame a bold vision for the profession's future. He is the 2021 recipient of the James A. Kelly Award for Advancing Accomplished Teaching from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and is a policy advisor for the Learning Policy Institute. Education Barnett Berry received his B.A. in Sociology from the University of South Carolina in 1977 and continued there to receive his M.Ed. Curriculum in 1978. He received his Ph.D. Educational Administration and Policy Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1984. Career Barnett Berry began his career as a public high school social studies teacher in Columbia, SC where he taught for three years. After completing his doctorate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Berry joined the RAND Corporation as an Associate Social Scientist where he worked with Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond. In 1987, Berry became the Associate Director of the South Carolina Educational Policy Center at the University of South Carolina before moving on to become Senior Executive in the Division of Policy at the South Carolina State Department of Education in 1991. From 1992-1999, he served as Associate Professor in the College of Education at the University of South Carolina. In 1998, Berry was named Director, Policy and State Relations, for the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) at Teachers College, Columbia University where he then became Interim Director (2001-2002). Berry