keywords
- Anti-oppressive education, queer theory/ pedagogy, policy implementation, teacher learning
- Contact Info
Leonardi, Bethy
Positions
- Associate Professor, School of Education
- Faculty Director, School of Education
Research Areas
Research
Publications
selected publications
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chapter
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conference proceeding
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journal article
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A Pretty Queer Thing: Thinking Queerly About Teachers' Gender and Sexual Diversity-Focused Professional Learning.
Journal of Teacher Education.
511-522.
2021
- Cultivating a Queer Mindset: How One Elementary School Teacher Is Rattling Common Sense. Teachers College Record. 2021
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A Reflection on Engaged Scholarship.
Educational Policy.
383-392.
2021
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Beyond Bathroom Bills and the Gender Identity Debate: Complicating the Policy Conversation About Supporting Trans Students in Schools.
Educational Policy.
274-303.
2021
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Perpetuating Inequalities: The Role of Political Distraction in Education Policy.
Educational Policy.
163-179.
2021
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Understanding Democratic Education Policy Queerly: Toward a Queer Democratic Framework.
Education Policy Analysis Archives.
2021
- Unpacking the T: Sharing the Diverse Experiences of Trans Students Navigating Schools 2021
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Complicating What We Know: Focusing on Educators' Processes of Becoming Gender and Sexual Diversity Inclusive.
Theory into Practice.
29-38.
2019
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Teachers' professional learning to affirm transgender, non-binary, and gender-creative youth: experiences and recommendations from the field.
Sex Education.
449-463.
2018
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What's involved in "the work'? Understanding administrators' roles in bringing trans-affirming policies into practice.
Gender and Education.
754-773.
2018
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Navigating the relationship between policy and practice: competing discourses of fear and care in teachers' sense-making about the FAIR Education Act.
Journal of Education Policy.
694-716.
2017
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The "box"ing match: Narratives from queer adults growing up through the heterosexual matrix.
Journal of LGBT Youth.
93-117.
2017
- Leaning In to Discomfort: Preparing Literacy Teachers for Gender and Sexual Diversity. RESEARCH IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH. 209-229. 2016
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Affirm gender and sexual diversity within the school community.
Phi Delta Kappan.
69-73.
2015
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A Pretty Queer Thing: Thinking Queerly About Teachers' Gender and Sexual Diversity-Focused Professional Learning.
Journal of Teacher Education.
511-522.
2021
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder 2014
- M.A., University of Colorado Boulder 2008
- B.A., Nicholls State University 1996