Lok-Sze Wong

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book Chapter

• Mishra, P., Wong, L. (2024). A polyphonic humanizing view of pedagogy and technology. Cultivating Future-Oriented Learners: Polyphonic Education in a Changing World. Springer.
• Powers, J.M., Wong, L. (2023). Necessary risk: addressing precarity by re-envisioning teaching and learning. Educational Leadership and Policy in a Time of Precarity. 105-120. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003451617-8
• Sampson, C., Wong, L. (2023). Using Qualitative Data Analysis Software to Help Explore Critical Research Questions. Handbook of Critical Education Research. 637-654. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003141464-38
• Warr, M., Mishra, P., Scragg, B., Powers, J.M., Wong, L. (2022). Complicating design thinking in education: A university-school district partnership to design a school for the future. Design Thinking: Research, Innovation, and Implementation.
• Sampson, C., Cervantes-Soon, C., Demps, D.M., Estrella, A., Wong, L. (2021). A call from Mothers of Color for true family engagement. The Pandemic Reader: Exposing Social (In)justice in the Time of COVID-19.
• Huguet, A., Wong, L., Harrison, C.W., Coburn, C.E., Spillane, J.P. (2018). Research use in schools: A framework for understanding research use in school-level decision making. The SAGE Handbook of School Organization. 618-631.

Conference Proceeding

• Wong, L. (2024). Dismantling Racial Injustice by Helping Special Education Central Office Leaders Construct New Systemic Possibilities. Proceedings of the 2024 AERA Annual Meeting. AERA. https://doi.org/10.3102/2102789

Encyclopedia Article

• Wong, L., Huguet, A., Harrison, C.W., Coburn, C.E., Spillane, J.P. (2022). School leaders’ use of research: Viewing research use in decision making through an organizational lens. International Encyclopedia of Education (4th ed.). 235-242. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-818630-5.05057-0

Journal Article

• Cowhy, J.R., Wong, L., Hopkins, M. (2024). Towards dissolving the institutionalization of "othering": Organizational conditions that support shared responsibility. AERA Open. 10 SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584241298253
• Roberts, L., Wong, L., Ebejer, M. (2024). Culturally responsive teaching and critical race theory: When is CRt not CRT?. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554589241300975
• Johnson, D.D., Roberts, L., Wong, L., Ebejer, M. (2023). Consequential issues of censoring curriculum: Who has the right to ban what's read?. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership. Special Issue: Critical Cases in Antiracist Leadership. 26 (4) 62-74. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554589231201845
• Roberts, L., Ebejer, M., Wong, L., Johnson, D.D. (2023). Critical cases for antiracist leadership: A contribution to the movement. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership. 26 (4) 3-9. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554589231204062
• Wong, L. (2023). Accomplishing system reforms by minding the details: Developing understandings for collective practice. American Journal of Education. 129 (3) 383-412. University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.1086/724362
• Powers, J.M., Wong, L. (2022). Necessary risk: Addressing precarity by re-envisioning teaching and learning. Journal of Educational Administration and History. 54 (1) 105-120. Informa UK Limited. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2021.1960288
• Wong, L., Mishra, P. (2021). Reforming our school systems around a humanizing curriculum: Schooling during and after COVID-19. ECNU Review of Education. 4 (4) 890-898. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/2096531120980750
• Wong, L., Coburn, C.E., Kamel, A. (2020). How central office leaders influence school leaders’ decision making: Unpacking power dynamics in two school-based decision-making systems. Peabody Journal of Education. 95 (4) 392-407. Informa UK Limited. https://doi.org/10.1080/0161956x.2020.1800175
• Wong, L. (2019). Administrators’ unintentional sensegiving and system reform outcomes. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 27 (3) 1-28. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.27.3854
• Holmstrom, K., Wong, L., Krumm, A. (2015). No need to talk about teaching: Examining the effects that an instruction and assessment system has on collaborating teachers' discourse. Leadership and Policy in Schools. 14 (1) 104-133.

Magazine/Trade Publication

• Sampson, C., Wong, L., Estrella, A., Demps, D.M., Cervantes-, C. (2020). A call from Black and Brown mothers for true family engagement.

Research Report

• Shewchuk, S.J., Farrell, C.C., Farley-Ripple, E.N., Neal, J.W., Wong, L., Malin, J.R. (2025). A critical ecological perspective on the Wallace Foundation research production, diffusion, and use: Phase 3 analytic memo (Uncovering the imprint of Wallace’s research on state, territorial, and federal government websites).
• Farrell, C.C., Shewchuk, S.J., Malin, J.R., Farley-Ripple, E., Wong, L., Kaiser, L., Neal, J.W., Brutzman, B., Brooks, D., Abodunrin, A. (2024). A Critical Ecological Perspective on the Wallace Foundation Research Production, Diffusion, and Use: Phase 2 Analytic Memo (Advice to The Wallace Foundation: Ideas from Communication Partners, Researchers/Authors, and Current and Prior Wallace Staff).
• Farrell, C.C., Malin, J.R., Shewchuk, S.J., Farley-Ripple, E., Wong, L., Neal, J.W., Kaiser, L., Brutzman, B., Brooks, D., Abodunrin, A. (2024). A Critical Ecological Perspective on the Wallace Foundation Research Production, Diffusion, and Use: Phase 2 Memo (Knowledge Mobilization and Perceived Research Use).
• Katzman, L.I., Wong, L., Cowhy, J.R., Bowling, M. (2024). Special education leadership study.
• Wong, L., Neal, J.W., Brutzman, B., Shewchuk, S.J., Malin, J., Abodunrin, A., Brooks, D., Farley-Ripple, E., Farrell, C. (2023). A Critical Ecological Perspective on The Wallace Foundation Research Production, Diffusion, and Use: Phase I Analytic Memo.
• Fossum, A., , L. (2021). Principled innovation reflections report: Analysis from the Summer Lead Teachers Workshop.
• Wong, L., Piepgrass, N., Bertrand, M. (2020). Student and alumni survey report: Program evaluation for the Educational Leadership Redesign Committee.
• Coburn, C.E., Spillane, J.P., Bohannon, A.X., Allen, A., Ceperich, R., Beneke, A., Wong, L. (2020). The role of organizational routines in research use in four large urban school districts (Technical Report No. 5).
• Wong, L. (2019). How does central office guidance influence school-level decision-making in school districts that emphasize school-level autonomy?.
• Wong, L., Allen, A. (2018). How external partners support instructional improvement in mathematics and literacy in (anonymous district).

Webpage

• Wong, L., Huguet, A., Harrison, C.W., Coburn, C., Spillane, J.P. (2020). Viewing educational decision making through an organizational lens. http://ncrpp.org/blog/2020/viewing-research-use-in-decision-making-through-an-organizational-lens

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research

• Wong, L. (Principal), Farley-Ripple, E. (Principal), Farrell, C.C. (Principal), Neal, J.W. (Principal), Malin, J. (Principal), "A Critical, Ecological Perspective on the Wallace Foundation Research Production, Diffusion, and Use," sponsored by The Wallace Foundation, National, $636298 Funded. (2023 - 2025).
• Wong, L. (Principal), Katzman, L. (Principal), "Study of District Leaders of Special Education," sponsored by Goalbook, Private, $43000 Funded. (2022 - 2024).