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 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’s publications, often co-authored with school- and community-based partners, appear in journals such as the Journal of Teacher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Action in Teacher Education, Teacher Development, School-University Partnerships, and the Journal of Educational Supervision. He is coauthor with Nancy Fichtman Dana and Diane Yendol-Hoppey of The Reflective Educator's Guide to Practitioner Inquiry (5th ed.; forthcoming 2025) and is Associate Editor of The Cambridge Handbook of School-University Partnerships (forthcoming 2025).
At present, Dr. Rutten is 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), 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).
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.
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