Megin Charner-Laird is an assistant professor at Salem State University, where she teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. After graduating from Swarthmore College, she spent four years teaching elementary school in California’s Bay Area. Her research focuses on how urban second-stage teachers experience professional learning opportunities. She also conducts research with newly trained urban teachers. Charner-Laird served as co-chair of the Harvard Educational Review and an editor of Education, Past and Present: Reflections on Research, Policy, and Practice (2005), a volume celebrating the 75th anniversary of the journal.