Linsay DeMartino (she, her)
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Mail code: 1811Campus: Tempe
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Linsay DeMartino (she/her) is an assistant professor at Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation in the Division for Advancing Education Policy, Practice, and Leadership. Her research considers innovative advancements in schools, emphasizing the transformative possibilities and opportunities within educational communities. She is particularly interested in sustainable educational practices rather than educational trends and “best practices” in PreK-12 schools. She proudly serves as a founding member and co-lead of the Storytelling Learning Futures Collaborative (LFC) at ASU.
Before her role as a scholar-practitioner, Dr. DeMartino served as a special education teacher, inclusion specialist, special education department chair, and instructional data and intervention coordinator in the Arizona landscape.
PhD University of Arizona
Peer Reviewed Articles (*published with a student)
Published
- DeMartino, L., & Weiser, S. (2025). Fierce love and resistance: LGBTQIA2S+ youth thriving in the in-between spaces. International Journal of Human Rights Education, 9(1), 1-15. https://repository.usfca.edu/ijhre/vol9/iss1/9
- DeMartino, L. (2025). Radically supporting LGBTQIA2S+ youth: Harnessing the power of storytelling for critical inclusivity in PreK-12 schools. Journal for Multicultural Education. Ahead of print. https://doi-org.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/10.1108/JME-01-2025-0001. Impact factor: 0.80; Five-year impact factor: 1.10; CiteScore (Scopus): 2.1; Acceptance rate: 22%
- DeMartino, L., & Weiser, G. (2025). Flying a plane, while also building the plane in the air: A COVID-19 composite narrative for educational re/newal. American Journal of Qualitative Research, 9(1), 219-235. https://doi.org/10.29333/ajqr/16031
- Weiser, S. G., & DeMartino, L. (2025). Reproductive futurity: Policy, pop-culture, and praxis. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 47(2), 375-396. https://doi-org.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/10.1080/10714413.2025.2450579 . Impact factor: 0.70; Five-year impact factor: 1.50; CiteScore (Scopus): 1.8; Acceptance rate: 30%
- DeMartino, L., Weiser, S. G., & Stasicky, L.* (2025). Everything is fine: Converging pandemics, resistance, and sustaining wokeness in education. Social Alternatives, 43(1), 32-40.
- DeMartino, L. (2023). Reflecting on the manifestations of whiteness: Developing a critically conscious, antiracist educator identity. The New Educator, 19(4), 329-348. https://doi.org/10.1080/1547688X.2023.2269249. CiteScore (Scopus): 2.2 (2022); SNIP: 0.806 (2022); SJR: 0.483 (2022); Altmetrics: 24; Acceptance rate: 15%.
- DeMartino, L. & Renn, D. (2023). Honor, build, and restructure: Preparing transformative school leaders as equitable changemakers through doctoral research methods courses. Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 8(2), 30-35. Impact factor: 0.3; h-index: 5; g-index: 8.
- Weiser, G., DeMartino, L. & Stasicky, A.* (2023). Like a pig in mud: Rejecting the manicured boundaries of the patriarchy. Journal of School Leadership, 33(2), 214-236. h5-index: 24; h5-median: 38; Scite Index: 0.938; Altmetrics: 29; Acceptance rate: 10%.
- Weiser, S. G. & DeMartino, L. (2022). “We're not going back to what was before, and we don’t know what the future will look like either”: Exploring the Voices and Images of Educational Administrators in Crisis. Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal, 15(2), 53-77.
- Ghosh, S. & DeMartino, L. (2022). Global universities’ COVID-19 scientific knowledge production: Collaborative sense-making during a crisis. Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education,14(3), 146-160. Altmetrics: 4; Acceptance rate: 31%; h5-index: 4
h5-median: 7. - DeMartino, L. (2022). Transforming educators: A framework for developing accomplices for racial justice in PreK-12 schools. Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 34(2), 156-167. Acceptance rate: 35%.
- DeMartino, L. Fetman, L., Tucker-White, D., & Brown, A.* (2022). From freedom dreams to realities: Adopting transformative abolitionist social emotional learning (TASEL) in schools. Theory into Practice, 61(2), 156-167. Scite index: 0.923; Altmetrics: 167; Acceptance rate: 5%; h-index: 79; Impact factor: 2.5; CiteScore (Scopus): 5.8.
- DeMartino, L. & Weiser, S. G. (2022). The desert flowers always bloom following the monsoon: Activism, school boards, and COVID-19. In S. M. McCarther (Ed.), Snapshots of History, Portraits of the 21st Century Pandemic, 2021 Special Edition of the American Educational History Journal (pp. 73-81). IAP.
- Weiser, S. G. & DeMartino, L. (2021). Who leads the leaders? K-12 and higher education leadership under duress. Curriculum in Context, Spring/Summer 2021, 15-20. https://wsascd.org/wp-content/uploads/3_S.-G-Weiser-L-DeMartino.pdf.
- DeMartino, L. (2021). Adult learners, remote learning, and the COVID pandemic: Restructuring educational doctorate courses in crisis. Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 6(2), 11-15. https://doi.org/10.5195/ie.2021.160. Impact factor: 0.3; h-index: 5; g-index: 8.
- DeMartino, L. & Weiser, S. G. (2021). Administrative leadership in times of a global health crisis: Voices and images from the field. Frontiers in Education, 6, 117. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.617857. Impact factor: 1.9; CiteScore (Scopus): 2.9.
- DeMartino, L. (2021) Documenting the modern pandemic: The challenges of the COVID-19 crisis on education. Planning and Changing, 50(3/4), 113-116. Acceptance rate: 30%.
- DeMartino, L. (2021). De-centering the deficit framework: Courageous refugee mentors in educational spaces. Urban Review, 53(2), 243–263. Scite Index: 0.875; Altmetrics: 60; Acceptance rate: 6-10%, h-index: 53; CiteScore (Scopus): 3.8.
Revise and Resubmit
- DeMartino, L. (revise and resubmit). A changed and changing world: Re/considering culturally responsive practices and educational policy.
Under Review
- Schulke, M.*, DeMartino, L., Hodges Kulinna, P., Poulos, A. (under review). Youth participatory action research: Reflections of an elementary school play-based project.
In Progress
- DeMartino, L. & Weiser, S. G. (in progress). So, darken your clothes, or strike a violent pose: Iero's story of strength, resistance, and solidarity.
- DeMartino, L., Williams, J. A.*, & Johnson, A.* (invited, in progress). The transformative power of drag: Stories of Queer hope and joy. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 1.1 (2023) Impact Factor, 1.8 (2023) 5 year IF, 2.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus), 25% acceptance rate.
Books and Book Chapters (*published with a student)
Books
Published/In Press
- Fetman, L. & DeMartino, L. (Eds.). Moving from traditional to transformative curriculum and pedagogy. Demystifying Social Justice Education: Moving from Trendy to Transformative Equity and Justice Practices in Schools book series. Myers Education Press.
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DeMartino, L. & Fetman, L. (Eds.). Moving from growth to asset-based mindsets. Demystifying Social Justice Education: Moving from Trendy to Transformative Equity and Justice Practices in Schools book series. Myers Education Press.
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DeMartino, L. & Fetman, L. (Eds.). (2025). Moving from trendy to transformative social and emotional Learning. Demystifying Social Justice Education: Moving from Trendy to Transformative Equity and Justice Practices in Schools book series. Myers Education Press.
- Fetman, L. & DeMartino, L. (2024). Transformative democracy in educational leadership and policy: Social justice in practice. Transforming education through critical leadership, policy and practice (TETCL) series. Emerald.
In Progress
- DeMartino, L. & Fetman, L. (Eds.). (in progress). Moving from involvement to equitable community collaboration. Demystifying Social Justice Education: Moving from Trendy to Transformative Equity and Justice Practices in Schools book series. Myers Education Press.
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Fetman, L. & DeMartino, L. (Eds.). (under contract). Moving from limited to liberated teacher education. Demystifying Social Justice Education: Moving from Trendy to Transformative Equity and Justice Practices in Schools book series. Myers Education Press.
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
- DeMartino, L. (2024). Building transformative capacity in schools: Supporting student voices in school reform efforts. In J. Eckert & B. Carpenter (Eds.), Catalytic improvement communities. Information Age Publishing.
- DeMartino, L. & Weiser, S. G. (2021). Striving for equity in pandemic times: The administrator's role in the shift to online education in K-12 and higher education spaces. In L. Kyei-Blankson, J. Blankson, E. Ntuli (Eds.), Revealing inequities in online education during global crises (199-223). IGI Global.
Book Chapters (*published with a student)
- Weiser, S. G., DeMartino, L. & Buschman, P.* (2024). Towns and gowns: A study in crisis leadership. In R. M. Reardon & J. Leonard (Eds.), Justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in education: School-university-community research. Information Age Publishing.
- DeMartino, L. & Fetman, L. (2023). From educators for social justice to educators of social justice. In T. Mealy & H. Bennett (Eds.), Equity planning for school leaders: Approaches to student diversity, access and opportunity. McFarland Publishing & Co.
- DeMartino, L. (2023). New directions for school principalships: Rejecting white supremacist ideologies and the manifestations of whiteness through transformative leadership practices. In T. A. Flowers (Ed.), Leadership and Policy in Urban Education: Key Issues. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- DeMartino, L. (2023). Integrating past, present, and future practices for the authentic adoption of transformative leadership in the 21st century. In D. J. Fowler, J. Vasquez Heilig, S. M. Jouganatos, & A. Johnson (Eds.), Equity & access: An analysis of educational leadership preparation, policy, & practice. Information Age Publishing.
- DeMartino, L. (2022). Resist becoming Karens and Kens in the classroom: Transforming from allyship to the role of accomplice for racial justice in schools. In T. A. Fowler (Ed.), Countering the mythology of inclusion and wellness in schooling. Dio Press.
- Weiser, S. G. & DeMartino, L. (2021). Scholar participant phantasmagoria: A creative reflection on research under crisis. In K. A. Lewis, K. Banda, M. Briseno, & E J. Weber (Eds.), The kaleidoscope of lived curricula: Learning through a confluence of crisis. The Curriculum & Pedagogy Group. IGI.
- DeMartino, L. (2021). Accents of positive school leadership: Applying a community framework in educational spaces. In S. Cherkowski, B. Kutsyuruba, & K. Walker (Eds.), Positive leadership for flourishing schools. Information Age Publishing.
- Koyama, J. & DeMartino, L. (2020). The Politics of Enacting Language Translation Policy. In S. Winton, B. Carpenter, & G. Parekh (Eds.), Critical perspectives on education policy and schools, families, and communities. Information Age Publishing.
- DeMartino, L. & Rusk, S. (2017). Students as researchers: A co-teaching narrative from a social justice-oriented U.S. Government class. In S. Pennell, A. Boyd, H. Parkhouse, & A. LaGarry (Eds.), Possibilities in practice (pp. 237-250). Peter Lang.
- DeMartino, L. (2017). Transformative charter school leaders: Tempered radicalism in practice. In D. Bickmore & M. Gawlik (Eds.), The charter school principal: Nuanced descriptions. Rowman & Littlefield.
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| TEL 713 | Action Research Qual Methods |
2025 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| TEL 706 | Action Rsrch Doctoral Studies |
| TEL 708 | Collab Apprch Data-Inf Dcn Mkg |
| TEL 708 | Collab Apprch Data-Inf Dcn Mkg |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| TEL 792 | Research |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| TEL 713 | Action Research Qual Methods |
| TEL 792 | Research |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| TEL 704 | Leadership for Org Change |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| TEL 713 | Action Research Qual Methods |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| EPA 790 | Reading and Conference |
| EXW 780 | Practicum |
| TEL 712 | Mixed Methods Action Research |
| EPA 752 | Research Design |