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Lauri Johnson
Associate Professor
Lauri Johnson
Ph.D.
Contact
Campion Hall Room 309C
Telephone: 617-552-1039
Email: lauri.johnson.1@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0002-4497-2376
Education
- Ph.D., University of Washington
Courses
Theories of Leadership
Leadership for Social Justice
Reflection on Leadership Seminar Information
Introduction to Educational Leadership and Change
Research Interests
Culturally responsive leadership practices and preparation programs in national and international contexts; historical and contemporary studies of community activism in urban school reform, and successful leadership in high-poverty schools.
Expertise
- Educational Leadership & Policy
- Equity and Social Justice
- Gender & Sexual Orientation
Department
Profile
Lauri Johnson joined the Lynch School faculty in the fall of 2009 as an Associate Professor and Director of the PSAP Ed.D. program for practicing school administrators. She also served as Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education from 2017 – 2021.
Before entering higher education, she was a K -12 practitioner for over 20 years, working as a reading specialist in Oregon and a special education teacher, professional developer, and district administrator focused on diversity issues in the NYC schools. As a multiculturalist she studies the lives and identities of diverse educators who advocate for more equitable learning experiences for all students and movements of parent and community activism in urban schools.
Her research is comparative, international, and often historical, and she has published widely (over 72 academic publications) on culturally responsive/sustaining leadership, policies and practices in the US, UK, and Canada, as well as case studies of successful school leadership in high poverty schools through the 20 country ISSPP (International Successful School Principalship Project). A former Fulbright Scholar to the UK, Johnson is currently the co-convener of a WERA (World Educational Research Association) International Research Network on educational advocacy.
Learn more about her international research by listening to this podcast featuring her award-winning article on the lives and identities of three generations of UK Black and South Asian headteachers (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1741143217717279#supplementary-materials) and by watching this Teachers College Record video (https://vimeo.com/792012049) on the history of Black-focused schools in Toronto and London, 1968-2008.
Publications
Journal Articles
- Johnson, L., Moyi, P., & Ylimaki, R. (2023). Successful school leadership in the USA: The role of context in core leadership practices. Education Sciences, 13, 968, https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13100968
- Washington, S., Johnson, L., & Chui, K. (conditionally accepted). Indigenous methodologies in international research on Indigenous family and community engagement. Review of Educational Research.
- Washington, S., & Johnson, L. (2023). Toward culturally sustaining/revitalizing Indigenous family-school-community leadership. Frontiers in Education, 8.
- Ylimaki, R., Jacobson, S., Johnson, L., Klar, H., Nino, J., Orr, M., & Scribner, S. (2022). Successful principal leadership in challenging American public schools: A brief history of ISSPP research in the United States and its major findings. Journal of Educational Administration, 60(1), 101 – 117.
- Johnson, L. (2021). Portraits of UK Black and South Asian headteachers five years on: Leadership retention in the age of academization. Educational Management, Administration, & Leadership, 49(4), 662-684.
- Johnson, L., & Caraballo, L. (2019). Multicultural education in the US and UK in the 1980s and beyond: The role of interest convergence-divergence. Multicultural Education Review, 11(3), 155-171.
- Johnson, L., & Pak, Y. (2019). Teaching for diversity: Intercultural and intergroup education in the public schools, 1920s to 1970s. Review of Research in Education, 43(1), 1 – 31.
- Johnson, L. & Pak, Y. (2018). Leadership for democracy in challenging times: Historical case studies in the US and Canada. Educational Administration Quarterly, 54(3), 396-426.
Book Chapters
- Johnson, L., & Winton, S. (2023). Researching educational advocacy: Findings from the WERA International Research Network on Engaging Families, Communities, and Educators as Educational Advocates. In L. Ebersohn & I. Gogolin (Eds.), Global perspectives on education research, Vol. II: Facing challenges and enabling spaces to support learning (pp. 91-113). Routledge.
- Johnson, L. (2022). Black women headteachers of the Windrush generation. In V. Showunmi, P. Moorsi, C. Shakeshaft, & I. Oplatka (Eds.), Bloomsbury handbook for gender and educational leadership and management (pp. 138 – 150). Bloomsbury.
- Johnson, L. (2020). Moral leaders for multicultural Britain: The lives and identities of UK South Asian head teachers. In J. C. Veenis, S. Robertson, & J. R. Berry (Eds.), Multiculturalism and multilingualism at the crossroads of school leadership: Exploring leadership theory, policy, and practice for diverse schools (pp. 17 – 31). Springer.