keywords
- Teacher learning, anti-oppressive education, queer theory, queer pedagogy, LGBTQ+ youth in schools, designs for teacher professional development in anti-oppressive education
- Contact Info
Staley, Sara
Positions
- Associate Professor, School of Education
- Faculty Director, School of Education
- Assoc Chair, School of Education
Research Areas
Research
Publications
selected publications
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conference proceeding
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journal article
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Learning to “Sit in the Messiness”: Leveraging Critical and Queer Pedagogies in Teacher Educator Development.
Teachers College Record.
67-100.
2025
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(Re)Active Praxis: Dominant Discomforts: Reflections on Our Attempts to Queer English Teacher Education.
English Education.
192-199.
2023
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Troubling emotional discomfort: Teaching and learning queerly in teacher education.
Teaching and Teacher Education : An International Journal of Research and Studies.
2023
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Learning through practice: Conceptualizing the demands of queer-inclusive teaching.
Curriculum Inquiry.
126-147.
2023
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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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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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On Getting Stuck: Negotiating Stuck Places in and Beyond Gender and Sexual Diversity-Focused Educational Research.
Harvard Educational Review.
287-307.
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
- 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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ENTERING THE CONVERSATION Exploratory Talk in Middle School Science.
Elementary School Journal.
547-572.
2014
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Learning to “Sit in the Messiness”: Leveraging Critical and Queer Pedagogies in Teacher Educator Development.
Teachers College Record.
67-100.
2025
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder 2014
- M.Ed., University of Kansas 2005
- B.S., University of Kansas 2002