Deborah A. Butler is professor of teacher education at Wabash College. She came to Wabash in 1985 after teaching in Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina. She received her BA degree in English at Christopher Newport College of the College of William and Mary, and holds the MEd and EdD in English Education from the University of Virginia. She has published on women and the Vietnam War (Unheard Voices: American Women Writing on the Vietnam War, Garland, 1989) and on middle grades curriculum and language arts (Rooms to Grow: Natural Language Arts in the Classroom, Carolina Academic Press, 1995). She is currently working with colleagues in her department on a study of the relationships between teacher education and liberal arts education sponsored by the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, and she is working with the Center on a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning project. Deborah received Wabash College’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 1998. She also served as a member of the NCATE Board of Examiners for teacher education accreditation nationally from 1995–2006 and as a national program folio reviewer for middle grades teacher education programs. Deborah also codeveloped the Wabash College teacher education program’s unit assessment system, which documents student learning and program change.