Frances Rust

Frances O’Connell Rust is a Senior Fellow and Director of Teacher Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Eduation. She is Professor Emeritus at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education. Since 1985, she has directed undergraduate and graduate-level teacher education programs at Teachers College of Columbia University, Manhattanville College, Hofstra University, and NYU.

Frances’ research appears in a variety of publications including: Teachers College Record, Teacher Education Quarterly, Teachers and Teaching-theory and practice, Teaching and Teacher Education, Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education. Rust serves on the AERA Summit on Teacher Education. She is an executive editor of Teachers and Teaching-theory and practice, and of Voices of Practitioners, the online teacher research journal of NAEYC. She is a founding member of the International Forum on Teacher Educator Development (InFo-TED). She has given invited addresses in Europe, Israel, China, Canada, and throughout the United States and regularly consults with universities and NGOs on the design and implementation of teacher education programs.