Susan Moore Johnson, a former high school teacher and administrator, is the Pforzheimer Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where from 1993 to 1999 she served as academic dean. Johnson is a member of the National Academy of Education and director of The Project on the Next Generation of Teachers. She is the author of numerous articles and several books, including Teacher Unions in Schools (Temple University Press), Teachers at Work (Basic Books), and Leading to Change (Jossey-Bass).
Sarah E. Birkeland, Morgaen L. Donaldson, Susan M. Kardos, David Kauffman, Edward Liu, and Heather G. Peske are all are former teachers, advanced doctoral students, and published researchers at The Project on the Next Generation of Teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.