Hua Luo

• Master of Education
• PhD Candidate at University of California, Berkeley

Objectives: There are contrasting views of competition in educational settings and recent research has suggested that individuals have different competitive orientations. In this study, we assessed competitive orientations in a sample of high achieving adolescents in the United States. We also examined the association of competitive orientations to...

The ecological systems theory suggests that human development is influenced by interactions across settings. However, limited research examines the connections between ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) in different contexts. Existing literature focuses primarily on family ERS, with recent studies acknowledging the importance of school ERS. Unfortun...

Recent news highlights the implications of a nationwide teacher shortage in public schools. Yet the teacher shortage and high turnover in K–12 have been long-standing challenges. Additionally, public education was highly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, causing widespread staff, teacher, and administrator attrition.1 This particular pandemic-rela...

As California's Transitional Kindergarten (TK) efforts expand following new 2021 legislation, district and site leaders are tasked with making TK implementation and expansion a reality within their schools for all four-year-old children by 2025-2026. As many as 250,000 students are estimated to enroll in these expanded kindergarten programs statewi...

In summer 2021, California’s legislature approved a significant expansion of Transitional Kindergarten (TK). TK is a school-based early-education program serving four-year-old students who turn five after September 1 to access a robust learning experience before kindergarten. California’s effort, namely Universal Transitional Kindergarten (UTK), at...

In the fall of 2021, most California public schools returned to in-person learning after months of remote learning. This brought about additional challenges for our leaders, as their roles and responsibilities continued to evolve and expand over the course of the pandemic (Clifford & Coggshall, 2021). For example, principals found themselves in the...

In Spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a sudden rupture in the normal day-to-day of schooling. Predictable structures and ways of doing school came to a halt as leaders and communities moved to rethink possibilities and procedures for the remainder of the 2020–2021 school year and the years to come. Since that time, while many parents and edu...

While the demographics of students in public education in California shift toward a majority of Students of Color,1 the diversification of the education workforce lags. In fact, diversifying the teacher workforce has failed to be a priority throughout U.S. history. This was especially the case in light of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling...

Cultural‐ecological theories posit that ethnic‐racial identity (ERI) development is shaped by transactions between contexts of ethnic‐racial socialization, yet research considering intersections among multiple contexts is limited. In this study, Black, Latino, White, and Asian American adolescents (N = 98; Mage = 16.26, SD = 1.09; 55.1% female iden...

The COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to the ongoing social and political movements in the United States,has dramatically impacted the work of school leaders. Over the past year and a half, school leaders have navigated unprecedented challenges of crisis leadership while finding ways to lead schools for equity (Grissom & Condon, 2021). Such immense pr...

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an unprecedented challenge to the world’s educational systems since March 2020. As schools adapted to distance learning, new challenges and concerns emerged for students who are historically marginalized and underserved. Students with multiple and intersecting marginalized identities are disproportionately more l...

Since the beginning of the 21st century, Youth – Plan, Learn, Act, Now (Y-PLAN) initiative has empowered young people to take an active role in tackling real-world problems through civic project-based learning (PBL).1 As Y- PLAN enters its second twenty years, COVID-19 arrived and caused a variety of changes in student learning and schooling. More...

To address the rapidly increasing demand for culturally and linguistically diverse school psychologists and training needs for international school psychology students in the USA, this study was grounded in the risk and resilience framework and used semi-structured interviews to explore the nuanced experiences of Asian international trainees in sch...