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  1. Using Quantitative Critical Race Methodology to Explore Teachers’ Perceived Beliefs

    Article • Educational Policy, May 2023, SAGE Publications

    Karen Stansberry Beard

  2. Time for Change: Understanding Teacher Social-Emotional Learning Supports for Anti-Racism and Student Well-Being During COVID-19, and Beyond

    Article • Education and Urban Society, December 2021, SAGE Publications

    Karen Stansberry Beard

  3. Breaking Barriers: District and School Administrators Engaging Family, and Community as a Key Determinant of Student Success

    Article • Urban Education, January 2021, SAGE Publications

    Karen Stansberry Beard

  4. Development, factor structure, and reliability of the Shared Instructional Leadership Scale in public secondary schools

    Article • Educational Management Administration & Leadership, October 2020, SAGE Publications

    Karen Stansberry Beard

  5. Toward a theory of Engaged School Leadership

    Article • Journal of School Leadership, November 2018, SAGE Publications

    Karen Stansberry Beard

  6. Getting on track: aligning the achievement gap conversation with ethical educational practice

    Article • International Journal of Leadership in Education, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Stansberry Beard

  7. Providing a Passport to the Future for Foster Youth: A Case for Educational Leadership and Policy

    Article • Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, June 2018, SAGE Publications

    Karen Stansberry Beard, Karen Stansberry Beard

  8. Charter School Authorization: A Gateway to Excellence and Equity

    Article • Journal of Transformative Leadership & Policy Studies, May 2018, California State University, Sacramento

    Karen Stansberry Beard

  9. Promises Kept or Opportunities Lost

    Article • Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, July 2017, SAGE Publications

    Karen Stansberry Beard, Karen Stansberry Beard

  10. Standing in the Gap: Theory and Practice Impacting Educational Opportunity and Achievement Gaps

    Article • Urban Education, November 2015, SAGE Publications

    Karen Stansberry Beard, Karen Stansberry Beard

  11. Theoretically Speaking: An Interview with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on Flow Theory Development and Its Usefulness in Addressing Contemporary Challenges in Education

    Article • Educational Psychology Review, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Karen Stansberry Beard, Karen Stansberry Beard

  12. Character in Action: A Case of Authentic Educational Leadership that Advanced Equity and Excellence

    Article • Journal of School Leadership, November 2013, SAGE Publications

    Karen Stansberry Beard

  13. Making the case for the outlier: researcher reflections of an African-American female deputy superintendent who decided to close the achievement gap

    Article • International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, February 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Stansberry Beard, Karen Stansberry Beard

  14. The Nature, Meaning, and Measure of Teacher Flow in Elementary Schools: A Test of Rival Hypotheses

    Article • Educational Administration Quarterly, July 2010, SAGE Publications

    Karen Stansberry Beard, Karen Stansberry Beard

  15. Academic optimism of individual teachers: Confirming a new construct

    Article • Teaching and Teacher Education, July 2010, Elsevier

    Wayne Hoy, Karen Stansberry Beard, Karen Stansberry Beard

  16. ‘Trusting’ schools to meet the academic needs of African‐American students? Suburban mothers’ perspectives

    Article • International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, September 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Stansberry Beard, Karen Stansberry Beard