Ed Liu is Director of Organizational Learning at BPE, which runs the Boston Teacher Residency and develops great teachers and great schools for Boston. Formerly, he was an assistant professor of educational theory, policy, and administration at Rutgers University. He received his BA from Yale University, his MBA and AM in Education from Stanford University, and his EdD from Harvard University. A former high school history teacher and director of Summerbridge Portland (a Breakthrough program), Liu studies teacher hiring, teacher quality, school improvement and organizational change, and education policy. He was a founding member of the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers. His email address is eliu@bpe.org.