William R. Penuel
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William R. Penuel

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William R. Penuel, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development in the Institute of Cognitive Science and School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Renée Crown Wellness Institute. He designs and studies curriculum materials, assessments, and professional learning experiences for teachers in STEM education. He also studies how contemplative practices and critical inquiry can support educators in cultivating more compassionate schools. A third line of his research focuses on how long-term research-practice partnerships can be organized to address systemic inequities in education. He is a co-developer of an approach to partnership research called Design-Based Implementation Research (DBIR). He is author of two books in education, Creating Research-Practice Partnerships in Education (with Dan Gallagher, Harvard Education Press, 2017) and The Connected School (with Barbara Means and Christine Padilla, Jossey-Bass, 2001). In addition, he has co-edited two volumes on collaborative education research: Connecting Research and Practice for Educational Improvement: Ethical and Equitable Approaches (with Bronwyn Bevan, Routledge, 2018), and The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education (with Donald Peurach, Jennifer Russell, and Laura Cohen-Vogel, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). He earned a B.A. in psychology from Clark University, an Ed.M. in Counseling Processes from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Clark University. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, the International Society of the Learning Sciences, and the International Society for Design and Development in Education. In addition, for six years, he served on the Board of Science Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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