Lee Ann Jung

Lee Ann Jung is an American author, educator, professor, and international consultant. Jung is the author of seven books, her most notable including the bestselling book, Seen, Heard, and Valued, by Corwin Press; Your Students, My Students, Our Students, by ASCD; and Assessing Young Children, by Pearson (new edition in press by Brookes Publishing). Her books center on inclusion, universal design for learning, classroom assessment, and grading reform. Jung's more than 50 articles have appeared in journals such as Phi Delta Kappan and Educational Leadership as well as many other peer-reviewed publications.

Jung began her career as a special educator in 1994 in rural Alabama. After eight years in special education as teacher then administrator, Jung shifted roles to researcher and author in higher education. She is a clinical professor at San Diego State University, previously professor at University of Kentucky and visiting professor at Samford University. In her 20 years of consulting work in the US and more than 30 countries, Jung's focus is on equity in schools, with an emphasis on neurodiversity. She supports inclusive systems thinking and professional development on the use of universal design for learning paired with research-based intervention to effectively include and support a wide diversity of students, including those with disabilities and learning differences Jung serves on the editorial board for the professional journal, Journal of Early Intervention as section editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Education, and is on the advisory board for Mastery Transcript Consortium. She was 2017-2018 chair of the Classroom Assessment Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.