Rebecca West Burns is an associate professor in the College of Education at the University of South Florida, where she studies supervision, clinically based teacher education, and school-university partnerships. Recently, she was awarded the Shirley S. Schwartz Urban Education Impact Award from the Council of the Great City Schools. She is known for her research and practical applications of verbal and nonverbal supervisory behaviors, practices, and pedagogical skills that promote individual teacher growth. She has published more than 30 journal articles and book chapters and is frequently invited to speak to state, regional, and national audiences. She is the coeditor of the recently published book Clinically-Based Teacher Education in Action: Cases from Professional Development Schools and has three other books under contract. Burns has held leadership roles in several national organizations, such as the Council of Professors of Instructional Supervision, the National Association for Professional Development Schools, the American Educational Research Association Supervision and Instructional Leadership Special Interest Group and the Professional Development School Research Special Interest Group, and the Association of Teacher Educators.
