Writing
My writing brings together educational research, public scholarship, and reflections shaped by my experiences as a teacher, researcher, and elected school board leader. Across academic publications and writing for broader audiences, I examine racial inequality, educational governance, institutional change, and the possibilities for more just and responsive public schools.
Writing has also helped me connect questions emerging from classrooms, communities, and educational institutions to broader conversations about justice and public education. My work moves between scholarly inquiry and public dialogue, attending to how educational policies and institutional decisions are experienced by students, families, and educators. Across these forms of writing, I seek to make visible the relationships between everyday educational experiences and the larger structures that shape them.
Scholarly Publications
Wallace, D. A., Hibdon, N., & López, G. (2026). Uplifting Black pedagogical rituals of purpose through portraits of Toni Morrison’s humanistic education. Black Educology Mixtape “Journal,” 4(1), Article 11.
López, G., & Wallace, D. A. (2025). Curtailing the slow violence of white supremacy in school districts through critical Ethnic Studies praxes, pedagogies, and partnerships. Ethnic Studies Pedagogies, 4(1), 28–44.
López, G., & Sampson, C. (2024). The politics of the 2021 school board recall attempts. Theory Into Practice, 63(3), 313–322.
Public Writing
López, G. (2021, April 6). It’s time for the San Francisco school board to focus. San Francisco Examiner.
López, G. (2020, February 24). It’s one thing to be an investigative journalist; it’s another to have the outcome already decided. Medium.
Emerging Scholarship
SELECTED MANUSCRIPTS
Beyond Disparities: Conceptualizing Racial Harm in Progressive School Discipline
López, G. (2026).
Manuscript in preparation
The Elusive Quest for Equity in Specific Learning Disabilities Identification
Artiles, A. J., López, G., Gamboa-Zapatel, D., McLaughlin, M., Ocasio-Stoutenburg, L., Lindo, E., Sorrells, A., Gunter, A., Bal, A., & Losen, D. (2026).
Manuscript under review