Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Dawer, D. I. (2026). “We’re teaching them to follow orders”: English Language Arts Teachers’ Responses to State Takeover. In B. Hsieh, J. Tourneville, M. P. Chopin, & A. Priede (Eds.), Teachers in a World in Transition: International Perspectives on Education Reform and Teachers’ Lived Experiences (pp. 52-68). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003678885-5
Dawer, D. I., & Timm, T. (2026). Contaminated spaces: A critical policy analysis of historical school siting policy and environmental racism in Detroit and Houston. Journal of Spatial Equity and Education, 1(1), 62-85. https://doi.org/10.66981/001c.167462
Dawer, D. I. (2025). “We are not your colony”: Policy Discourses and Resistance in Texas’s Takeover of Houston Independent School District. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 33(11). https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.33.8508
Dawer, D. I., & Woulfin, S. L. (2024). From Oyster Reefs to Turnaround Schools: An Educational Restoration Model for the COVID-19 Era. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 24(2), 312-329. https://doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2024.2303678
Policy Reports
Singer, J., Woulfin, S. L., Dawer, D. I., Lizarraga, L., Strunk, K. O., Harbatkin, E., & Chen, W. (2026). Round 4 of the Partnership Model: 2024-25 Implementation Report. Education Policy Innovation Collaborative. https://epicedpolicy.org/round-4-of-the-partnership-model-2024-25-implementation-report/
Jabbar, H., Holme, J. J., Owens, A., Dawer, D. I., Timm, T., Espinoza, D., Blagg, T., & Madrigal, T. (2025). Harmonizing Systems to Reduce Eviction and Homelessness: An Environmental Scan of Innovative School-Housing Partnerships. University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. https://rossier.usc.edu/documents/harmonizing-systems-reduce-eviction-and-homelessness
Woulfin, S. L., Dawer, D. I., McKenzie, L., & Pernetti, M. (2024). The Ecosystem of Actors Influencing the Implementation of STEM Innovations. Paper commissioned by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on PreK-12 STEM Education innovations. https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/27950/Ecosystems%20of%20Actors%20Influencing%20the%20Implementation%20of%20STEM%20Innovations_Woulfin%20Dawer%20McKenzie%20Pernetti.pdf
Book Reviews
Dawer, D. I. (2026). Review: What We Stand to Lose: Black Teachers, the Culture They Created, and the Closure of a New Orleans High School by Kristen L. Buras. E3W Review of Books, 26, 60-61. https://e3w.dwrl.utexas.edu/issues/volume-26-spring-2026/politics-and-academies/what-we-stand-to-lose-black-teachers-the-culture-they-created-and-the-closure-of-a-new-orleans-high-school-kristen-l-buras/
Dawer, D. I. (2025). Review: Designed to Fail: Why Racial Equity in School Funding Is So Hard to Achieve by Roseann Liu. E3W Review of Books, 25, 62-63. https://e3w.dwrl.utexas.edu/issues/volume-25-spring-2025/education-pedagogy/designed-to-fail-why-racial-equity-in-school-funding-is-so-hard-to-achieve-by-roseann-liu/
Dawer, D. I. (2023). Review: Moving Across Differences: How Students Engage LGBTQ+ Themes in a High School Literature Class by Mollie V. Blackburn. E3W Review of Books, 23, 16-17. https://e3w.dwrl.utexas.edu/issues/volume-23-spring-2023/pedagogies-of-care-and-belonging-contemporary-classrooms-and-healthcare-access-2/moving-across-differences-how-students-engage-lgbtq-themes-in-a-high-school-literature-class-by-mollie-v-blackburn/