Logan Rutten

Biography

Logan Rutten is Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching, Leadership, and Professional Practice at the University of North Dakota.

Dr. Rutten studies and teaches practitioner inquiry in school-university partnerships as a form of professional learning for educators across the career span. His areas of methodological interest include qualitative case studies and systematic literature reviews.

Dr. Rutten’s scholarship features sustained collaborations with teachers and administrators serving K-12 students in rural communities across the United States and the Navajo Nation. His current research program asks: How can we support students in rural schools in learning to address the school, community, and civic issues that matter most to them?

Dr. Rutten is currently (co)leading Enhancing Navajo Nation Youth Academic Achievement Through Diné Character Education (Brady Education Foundation), Professional Learning About Constructing Assessment for Indigenous Knowledges (W. K. Kellogg Foundation), Two-Eyed Seeing: Enhancing Teacher Education in an Era of Teacher Shortages Through Indigenous and Western Knowledge Integration (UND College of Education and Human Development) and Making Holocaust and Genocide Education Relevant Through Inquiry and Classroom Application (National Endowment for the Humanities). He serves as Co-Chair of the Research Committee for the National Association for School-University Partnerships (NASUP) and as Associate Editor of the Cambridge Handbook of School-University Partnerships (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). His recent publications appear in journals such as the Journal of Teacher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Action in Teacher Education, Teacher Development, School-University Partnerships, PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, and the Journal of Educational Supervision.