Johnston is professor of secondary education at the University of South Florida where he prepares teachers and administrators for work in the urban environment. His prior positions have included professor at the University of Cincinnati, where he also was dean of the Graduate School of Education and dean of the College of Education, and a junior and high school teacher and administrator in New York and Wyoming.

Johnston's research focuses on effective schooling for all youth, particularly in challenging settings. He recently has been active in assisting schools as they cope with the demands of high-stakes accountability and the standards-based reform movement. Johnston has written more than 150 published works and has presented more than 2,000 papers, lectures, workshops and keynote addresses in all 50 United States and more than a dozen other countries.

He has received university-wide teaching and research awards, and is a recipient of National Association of Secondary School Principals' Distinguished Service and Gruhn-Long-Melton awards, as well as the John Lounsbury Award from the National Middle School Association.

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