David Osher is a Senior Fellow at The Learning Policy Institute and a fellow at the Education Collaboratory at Yale and at the  EASEL Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and an American Education Research Association Fellow and has received The Juanita Cunningham Evans Memorial Award for Contributions in School Mental Health and the Joseph Zins Distinguished Scholar Award for Outstanding Contributions to Action Research in Social and Emotional Learning.

He recently concluded 30 years of work at The American Institutes for Research, where he was an Institute Fellow and Vice President, and led many major evaluations and technical assistance centers, and supported collaboration and practice improvement.

Dr. Osher is an expert on violence prevention, school safety, supportive school discipline, conditions for learning and school climate, social and emotional learning, youth development, cultural competence, family engagement, collaboration, mental health services, and implementation science. He has led impact and qualitative evaluations of initiatives and programs, systematic reviews, and expert panels, as well as projects that have developed surveys, and supported schools, districts, and states to promote conditions for learning, including school safety, and to address disciplinary disparities.