The fall issue of Michigan Education, the magazine of the Marsal Family School of Education, features a profile of Deborah Loewenberg Ball, highlighting her recent appointment as the Jessie Jean Storey-Fry Distinguished University Professor of Education. The profile opens with a reflection on the path her career has taken:
Decades before Dr. Deborah Loewenberg Ball was the dean of U-M’s School of Education or the president of the American Educational Research Association or the recipient of more than a dozen awards and honors for contributions to mathematics education, she was a teacher at Spartan Village Elementary School in East Lansing. It was there that she learned foundational lessons about teaching and leadership from her mentor, Dr. Jessie Jean Storey-Fry.
It goes on to recount how her research and scholarly work have been grounded in the study of practice: from her Elementary Mathematics Laboratory to her groundbreaking work on mathematical knowledge for teaching to her more recent examination of the discretionary spaces inherent in teaching. As the profile concludes, “All of Loewenberg Ball’s career milestones and accolades grew from a deep commitment to the study of practice that was launched in her classroom at Spartan Village Elementary School.”
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