Logan Rutten

Biography

Logan Rutten is Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching, Leadership, and Professional Practice at the University of North Dakota, where he studies and teaches practitioner inquiry in school–university partnerships as a form of professional learning for educators across the career span. His current scholarship features sustained collaborations with teachers and administrators serving K-12 students in rural and Indigenous communities.

Rutten’s publications, often co-authored with school- and community-based partners, appear in top-ranked journals such as Review of Educational Research, Journal of Teacher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Action in Teacher Education, Teacher Development, and School–University Partnerships. Rutten recently served as associate editor for The Cambridge Handbook of School–University Partnerships and coauthored The Reflective Educator's Guide to Practitioner Inquiry.

A graduate of the Bismarck Public Schools (Bismarck, North Dakota), Dr. Rutten earned a B.A., summa cum laude, at Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota) in K-12 Music Education and K-12 Latin Education. He later earned a Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University (University Park, Pennsylvania). He has taught students in Kindergarten through 12th grade in public, charter, and virtual school settings and a range of courses and workshops for undergraduates, graduate students, and inservice educators. He regularly partners with schools and school districts to design and lead locally relevant, inquiry-based educator professional learning.