About Dr. Lisa Romero

Dr. Lisa Romero is a professor of educational policy and leadership in the College of Education at California State University Sacramento. Her research focuses on socio-cognitive aspects of schools and learning, including trust and school climate, student discipline, equity, and school improvement, particularly for historically marginalized students. Her scholarship has been published in high-impact journals, including the Journal of School Psychology, Educational Administration Quarterly, the Journal of Educational Administration, and Teachers College Record. Dr. Romero received a Sacramento State Outstanding Scholarship and Creative Activity Award in 2018 and the Dr. Juliana Raskauskas Legacy Lecture Award in 2021 in recognition of her scholarship.

Dr. Romero's research on Latinx perceptions of school climate has been funded in part by the Spencer Foundation. Additionally, Dr. Romero has published work on a range of topics pertaining to education administration, including teacher training and induction, and professional responsibility. Her work is wholistic, sophisticated and theoretically complex. With careful consideration of the nexus of theory and practice, Dr. Romero’s work helps outline what is needed to transform educational spaces and address pressing issues in American schools.

Prior to joining Sacramento State in 2012, Dr. Romero worked in public schools as a teacher, middle school and high school assistant principal, high school principal, and district director of secondary instruction. As a school leader, she dramatically reduced suspensions and expulsions, and expanded college and career opportunities for students. She led her school to recognition as a National AVID Demonstration School, instilling a college-going culture and increasing college attendance. She also worked to create up-to-date career and technical pathways, including installing a modern, state-of-the-art health science training lab to provide students with training and access to careers instead of just jobs.

Her work as a teacher and leader in large, culturally and linguistically diverse, low-income schools provided her with important insights into the variability of school experiences and motivated her pursuit of a Ph.D. It continues to motivate both her research and teaching. Her classes provide students with more than just theory gleaned from a life in academia. She combines her knowledge of research with real insight that can only come from lived experience working in schools with students, teachers, and families. She understands of what schools and school leaders face, and need to know and be able to do to create schools that work for all of our children.

Experience

Professor, Doctorate in Educational Leadership Program

2012–Present

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Principal, Fontana High School (FUSD)

2010–2012

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Director of Secondary Instruction (FUSD)

2007–2009

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Middle and High School Assistant Principal (FUSD)

2002–2006

Education

Ph.D.
University of California, Riverside
Educational Policy, Quantitate Methods, Sociology of Education

M.A. | Public Administration
University of Houston
Policy and Administration

B.S. | Public Administration
Indiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Policy and Administration, Law and Public Policy

Credentials:
Administrative Services Credential
Single Subject Teaching Credential

Courses Taught (Graduate/Undergraduate)

Transformational Leadership I          

Policy and Practice for Educational Leaders

Education Policy II

Data Driven Decision Making

Quantitative Methods

Community and Communication

Diversity and Equity in Complex Organizations

Legal Issues for Educational Leaders

Dissertation Prospectus

Dissertation I   

Dissertation II   

Research to Practice Seminar in Social Justice

Research to Practice Seminar in Law and Ethics

 

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