Bil Johnson is a retired educator who taught for over 42 years as a public-school teacher (7-12) and teacher-educator (at Brown University and Yale University).  A co-founder of one of the first charter schools in Massachusetts (The Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School,  Devens, MA) he was also a member of the Coalition of Essential Schools National School Reform Faculty.  Johnson is the author of The Performance Assessment Handbook, Volumes 1 & 2, The Student-Centered Classroom Handbook, and Right Time, Right Places: One Teacher’s School Reform Journey. Bil Johnson was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1949 and grew up on Long Island, where he became “Mr. Bay Shore” at his high school after quarterbacking an undefeated football team and serving as captain of the basketball squad. He graduated from Yale College in 1971 and, after a semester of substitute teaching at his old high school began a Master of Arts in Teaching program at Colgate University in upstate New York. After receiving his degree from Colgate, Johnson began his teaching career at the newly created Blind Brook Jr./Sr. High School in Rye Brook, N.Y