Lok-Sze Wong

Dr. Lok-Sze Wong studies system reform policies as attempts to address systemic issues. Drawing on education, sociocultural, and organization theories and mixed methods, her research unpacks how systems (re)produce issues and how to humanely reform schools and districts as complex social systems. She focuses on professional learning opportunities that support teachers and administrators as they shift their practices while redesigning the very organizations that support their work. Dr. Wong began her career in education as an elementary school teacher in Los Angeles. Dr. Wong has a Ph.D. in Educational Administration and Policy from the University of Michigan.

• Wong, L. (2023). Accomplishing system reforms by minding the details: Developing understandings for collective practice. American Journal of Education, 129(3).
• Powers, J. M., &  Wong, L. (2022). Necessary risk: Addressing precarity by re-envisioning teaching and learning. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 54(1).
• 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.
• 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).
• Wong, L. (2019). Administrators’ unintentional sensegiving and system reform outcomes. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 27(3).

 

• The Study of District Leaders of Special Education
• A critical, ecological perspective on Wallace Foundation research production, diffusion, and use