About Dr. Berg

Throughout more than 25 years working in educational practice, research and policy, Dr. Berg has written many articles on the topics of teacher leadership, teaching quality, leadership development and school improvement. Her regular column, “Leading Together,” in ASCD’s Educational Leadership, aims to heighten leaders’ attention to the complementary roles that teacher leaders and administrators can play as they co-perform leadership to improve their schools. Dr. Berg is currently the author of three books, Improving the Quality of Teaching through National Board Certification (Christopher Gordon Press, 2003), Leading in Sync: Teacher Leaders and Principals Working Together for Student Learning (ASCD, August 2018), and Uprooting Instructional Inequity: The Power of Inquiry-Based Professional Learning (ASCD, February 2022).

Dr. Berg is principal consultant of Jill Harrison Berg Consulting, LLC. She has led or partnered on significant projects that advance the quality of teaching for local, state-wide and national institutions including the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Washington’s Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession, Nellie Mae Education Foundation, Educational Development Corporation (EDC), WestEd, the National Research Council and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, as well as several school districts throughout the country. She recently served as an inquiry coach and organizational learning consultant for Zaretta Hammond’s Culturally Responsive Education by Design Professional Learning Community. In addition to serving as a leadership coach to several school and district leadership teams, she is currently a senior advisor for the National Educational Leadership Institute, a leadership development program for the Ministry of Education in Ghana. 

In her career, Dr. Berg has been an educator of leaders at all levels. She began her career in the classroom, with a passion for teaching elementary and middle grade students to be leaders who take ownership of their own learning and strive to be a positive influence on learning of others. After earning National Board Certification, she left the classroom to pursue a doctorate and continued to support the development of teacher leaders and other school leaders through various institutions of higher education and non-profit organizations, including the Boston Plan for Excellence, Teachers21, Simmons College, Brandeis University and University of Massachusetts in Boston.

Dr. Berg earned her doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education while working as a researcher with the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers. She also holds a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.Ed. from Lesley University, and was one of the first teachers in Massachusetts to become a National Board Certified Teacher (1998). She lives in Boston with her husband, who is a veteran teacher and Vice President of the Boston Teachers Union. Their two adult children are college graduates who attended the Boston Public Schools.