Deborah Loewenberg Ball

Deborah Loewenberg Ball is an expert on the demands of teaching and the imperatives for teachers’ professional education. Her pioneering research has shaped teacher education, providing important insights into the ways that inequity and oppression regularly pervade normative teaching practice, and how teacher education and development can help disrupt this. As the director of TeachingWorks, Deborah provides leadership and vision for the organization and often designs and leads work with collaborators and partners. She taught elementary school for more than 15 years and continues to teach children every summer. In addition to her work as director of TeachingWorks, Deborah is also the Jessie Jean Storey-Fry Distinguished University Professor of Education at the Marsal Family School of Education, an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, and a research professor in the Institute for Social Research. She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Education, and is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and the American Educational Research Association. Deborah earned her PhD in curriculum, teaching, and educational policy and teacher preparation and staff development from Michigan State University.