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Dr. Lee Ann Jung

Dr. Lee Ann Jung is an American author, professor, and educational consultant whose work focuses on inclusive education, grading reform, and classroom-based support for neurodivergent learners. She is the founder of Lead Inclusion and a clinical professor at San Diego State University. Jung has published widely on Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), classroom assessment, and individualized intervention planning. She is also a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded researcher.

Career

Jung began her career as a special education teacher. She has held faculty positions at Samford University and, from 2002 to 2016, at University of Kentucky, where she was a professor and the director of international school partnerships. Since 2017, she has been a clinical professor in Educational Leadership at San Diego State University.[1]

In 2018, she founded Lead Inclusion, an international consulting organization that supports independent and public schools in building inclusive and research-informed instructional and assessment systems.[1]

Publications

Jung is the author or co-author of the following books:

  • Every Child Deserves a Special Education: Five Mindframes That Ensure All Students Learn (with John Hattie, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Lorraine Graham, Corwin Press, 2025)[2]
  • Assessment of Young Children (with Gayle Mindes, 6th ed., Brookes Publishing, 2026)[3]
  • Your Students, My Students, Our Students: Rethinking Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms (with Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Julie Kroener, ASCD, 2019)[4]
  • Grading Exceptional and Struggling Learners (with Thomas Guskey, Corwin Press, 2012)[5]
  • Answers to Essential Questions About Standards, Assessments, Grading, and Reporting (with Thomas Guskey, Corwin Press, 2013)[6]
  • Assessing Students, Not Standards: Begin With What Matters Most (Corwin Press, 2024)[7]
  • Seen, Heard, and Valued: Universal Design for Learning and Beyond (Corwin Press, 2023)[8]
  • From Goals to Growth: Intervention and Support in Every Classroom (ASCD, 2018)[9]
  • A Practical Guide to Planning Interventions and Monitoring Progress (Solution Tree, 2015)[10]

Research and Grants

Jung's research has focused on inclusive grading, progress monitoring, and intervention design. Her article Grading Exceptional Learners is widely cited in work on equitable grading and standards-based assessment.[11]

She served as co-principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health-funded randomized controlled trial examining teacher coaching for students with autism.[12]

Professional Service

Jung served as Chair of the Classroom Assessment Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) from 2017 to 2018.[13] She is section editor for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Education[14] and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Early Intervention.[15]

She also served on the Higher Education Advisory Board for the Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC), which led the field in envisioning an innovative alternative to traditional high school transcripts.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Lee Ann Jung". Corwin Press. https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/author/lee-ann-jung. 
  2. "Every Child Deserves a Special Education". https://www.corwin.com/books/vl-in-the-inclusive-classroom-288569. 
  3. "Assessment of Young Children". https://products.brookespublishing.com/Assessment-of-Young-Children-P1681.aspx. 
  4. "Your Students, My Students, Our Students". https://www.ascd.org/books/your-students-my-students-our-students. 
  5. "Grading Exceptional and Struggling Learners". https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/book/grading-exceptional-and-struggling-learners. 
  6. "Answers to Essential Questions". https://www.corwin.com/books/answers-ess-questions-standards-238010. 
  7. "Assessing Students, Not Standards". https://www.corwin.com/books/assessing-students-287360. 
  8. "Seen, Heard, and Valued". https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/seen-heard-and-valued/book276701. 
  9. "From Goals to Growth". https://www.ascd.org/books/from-goals-to-growth. 
  10. A Practical Guide to Planning Interventions and Monitoring Progress. ISBN 1935249509. 
  11. "Lee Ann Jung – Google Scholar". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=n299YTcAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao. 
  12. Ruble, L. A.; McGrew, J. H.; Toland, M. D.; Dalrymple, N. J.; Jung, L. A. (2013). "A randomized controlled trial of COMPASS web-based and face-to-face teacher coaching in autism". Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 81 (3): 566–572. doi:10.1037/a0032003. PMID 23438314. 
  13. "Classroom Assessment SIG 18". https://www.aera.net/SIG018/Classroom-Assessment. 
  14. "Routledge Encyclopedia of Education – Editorial Board". https://www.taylorfrancis.com/rroe/about-us/editorial-board?context=rroe. 
  15. "Journal of Early Intervention Editorial Board". https://journals.sagepub.com/editorial-board/jei.