Susan Moore Johnson is the Jerome T. Murphy Professor in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she served as academic dean from 1993 to 1999. She studies and teaches about teacher policy, organizational change, and administrative practice. A former high school teacher and administrator, Johnson has a continuing research interest in the work of teachers and the reform of schools. She has studied and published on the leadership of superintendents, the effects of collective bargaining on schools, the priorities of local union leaders, teacher evaluation, the use of incentive pay plans for teachers, and the school as a context for adult work. Since 1998, Johnson has directed the multiyear research study, the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers, which examines how best to recruit, support, and retain a strong teaching force. Recently, she and John P. Papay proposed a new career-based plan for teachers’ pay in Redesigning Teacher Pay: A System for the Next Generation of Educators (Economic Policy Institute, 2009). She is also the author of numerous chapters and articles in publications such as Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Teachers College Record, American Educational Research Journal, and Phi Delta Kappan.