Hunter Gehlbach is a professor and vice dean at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. His research focuses on the social element of social-emotional learning in middle and high school classrooms by developing interventions to improve teacher-student relationships and sense of belonging, and on using social psychological approaches to environmental education. He also helps educators design better surveys to obtain information that can be used to strengthen teacher and student outcomes. A former high school social studies teacher, Gehlbach earned a Ph.D. in educational psychology from Stanford University and taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and at the University of California, Santa Barbara Gevirtz School of Education.