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, systematic literature reviews, and theory-building in educational research.
Dr. Rutten’s scholarship features sustained collaborations with teachers and administrators serving K-12 students in rural, urban, and suburban 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), Making Holocaust and Genocide Education Relevant Through Inquiry and Classroom Application (National Endowment for the Humanities), and 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). He serves as Co-Chair of the Communications 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.
PhD, The Pennsylvania State University
Curriculum & Instruction, Emphasis in Curriculum & Supervision
Doctoral Minor in Educational Theory & Policy
MEd, The Pennsylvania State University
Curriculum & Instruction, Emphasis in Curriculum & Supervision
BA, summa cum laude, Concordia College
Double Majors in K-12 Music Education and K-12 Latin Education