Published Articles
- Molle, D., Sebenoler, M., Eslinger, J., Agnes, D., & Halverson, R. (2025). Infusing equity in continuous improvement: Supporting equity-focused leadership development in Columbus City Schools. Frontiers in Education. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2025.1545785/full#tab1
- Molle, D., Liou, Y., Halverson, R., Clifford, M., Childs, J., Saldaña, C., Awaludin, A., & Guan, X. (2025). Exploring the evolution of district-university partnerships focused on equity-centered leadership. Journal of Professional Capital & Community, 10(2), 230-249. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPCC-05-2024-0073
- Molle, D., Handsman, E., Peters-Hawkins, A., Jones, W., Diamond, J., Nott, E., Choi, Y., White, M., Greer, C., Mosby, J., & Halverson, R. (2024). Dynamics in district-university partnerships focused on leadership for equity. Education Sciences, 14(11). https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14111221
- Bowers, A. J., Molle, D., Choi, Y., & Halverson, R. (2024). Tracking the Indicators of Opportunity. Principal Magazine. https://www.naesp.org/resource/tracking-the-indicators-of-opportunity/
Conference Papers
- Saldaña, C., Liou, Y., Molle, D., Guan, X, Childs, J., Volk, S., Davalos, L., Clifford, M., Awaludin, A., & Halverson, R. (2025, April). Examining the relationship between district spending practices and network growth in equity-centered educational change. [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Denver, CO. (link to slides)
- Nott, E., Greer, C., & Molle, D. (2025, April). Partnership and politicized care: Community voices in district-wide equity work. [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Denver, CO. (link to slides) (link to paper)
- Molle, D., White, M., Hennessey, L., Bainazarov, T., Gomez, L., Causey-Konaté, T., & Halverson, R. (2025, April). School Leaders’ Priorities for Creating More Equitable Teaching and Learning in Schools. [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Denver, CO. (link to slides) (link to paper)
- Mosby, J., Handsman, E., Diamond, J., Molle, D., Jones, W., & Halverson, R. (2025, April). “Alignment” or “radical visioning”: How district partnership teams define and actualize equity for school leadership. [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Denver, CO. (link to slides) (link to paper)
- Iverson, D. (2025, April). District-university partnerships as learning spaces: Working across boundaries. [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Denver, CO. (link to slides)
- Causey-Konaté, & T., Holland, N. (2025, April). Catalysts advancing equity mindsets into equity-centered leadership action: Insights on the formation of equity-centered dispositions. [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Denver, CO. (link to slides) (link to paper)
- Awaludin, A., & Halverson, R. (2025, April). “Connecting the dots”: Analyzing district partnership team networks to center equity in school principal preparation. [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Denver, CO. (link to slides)
- Awaludin, A., & Halverson, R. (2025, April). Detangling the webs of communication and collaboration networks of organizations for equity-centered principal preparation. [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Denver, CO. (link to slides)
- Bowers, A. J., Sill, M., Jiang, J., Williams, J., & Wu, Y. S. (2025, April). Informing FAIR Data Principles of Publicly Accessible Open School Equity Data using Data Taxonomies. [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Denver, CO. (link to slides)
- Awaludin, A., & Guan, X. (2024, April). Exploring partnership evolution in support of systems change towards equity-centered leadership: A mixed-methods social network analysis. [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA. (link to slides) (link to paper)
- Leger, M., Holland, N., Gomez, L., Molle, D., Causey-Konaté, T., & Bowers, A. J. (2024, April). Sensemaking equity: Exploring variation in district leaders’ conceptualizations of equity-centered leadership. [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA. (link to slides)
- Gomez L., Causey-Konaté, T., Leger, M., Molle, D., Kelley, C., Bowers, A., Halverson, R., & Holland, N. (2024, April). When macro meets micro: Exploring variation in equity-centered leadership. [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA. (link to slides) (link to paper)
- Bowers, A. J., & Choi, Y. (2024, April). Mapping 16 equity indicators across public data from multiple states and NYC: Metadata and interoperability. American Educational Research Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA. (link to slides) (link to paper)
- Diamond, J., Molle, D., Peters-Hawkins, A., Jones, W., Handsman, E., Nott, E., White, M., Choi, Y., Mosby, J., & Greer, C. (2024, April). Partnering in equity work: Dynamics in partnership efforts to advance equity in schools. [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA. (link to slides) (link to paper)
- Liou, Y., Saldaña, C., Clifford, M., Awaludin, A., Guan, X., Choi, Y., Molle, D., Childs, J., & Halverson, R. (2024, April) Collaborating to Support Equity-Centered Leadership: A Two-Year Social Network Analysis of Eight Districts. [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA. (link to paper)
- Kelley, C., Molle, D., & Halverson, R. (2024, April). Which leadership practices do educators identify as equity-centered? [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA. (link to paper)
- Leger, M., Dryer, G., & Gomez, L. (2024, April) Access, Achievement, Identity, Power: Conceptualizing Equity-Centered Leadership Practice Through the Lens of Multi-Dimensionality. [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA. (link to paper)
- Clifford, M. A., Molle, D., Halverson, R. R., Kallio, J. M., Saldaña, C., Awaludin, A., Childs, J., & Guan, X. (2023, April). Preparing for innovation: Mapping districts’ initial efforts to build partnerships around equity-centered principal pipelines. [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, IL. (link to slides) (link to paper)
- Molle, D., Diamond, J., & Jones, W. (2023, April). Institutional logics and leadership for equity: How district teams approach change at the initial stages of a multiyear initiative. [Conference presentation]. American Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, IL. (link to paper)
Book Chapters
- Molle, D., Tribby, C., Iverson, D., White, M., Causey-Konate, T., & Hollands, N. (in press). Taking care of “my babies”: Humanity as the core of critical servant leadership. In R. Vassar, J. Alston, D. Anderson, and C. Barnett (Eds.), Leading with soul: Examining the praxis of critical servant leadership theory and spiritual leadership for school administrators. IAP. (link to manuscript)
- Liou, Y., Molle, D., Halverson, R., Childs, J. (in preparation). Networks that learn: Leveraging social network analysis for school and system-level learning. International Handbook of School Effectiveness and Improvement (2nd ed.)
The Wallace Foundation Reports
- Molle, D., Halverson, R., & Mason, D. (2025). Promising practices for the design and implementation of equity-centered leader pathways.
- Halverson, R., Molle, D., Liou, Y., Diamond, J., Jones, W., Clifford, M., Saldaña, C., & Childs, J. (2024). How urban districts built capacity and aligned systems to support leadership for equity: Early findings from the Wallace ECPI Initiative.
The Wallace Foundation Technical Papers
- Halverson, R., Molle, D., Mason, D., & CALL-ECL Research Team (2025, May). CALL-OTL survey development.
- Halverson, R., Molle, D., Blitz, M., Kelley, C., & Mason, D. (2024, September). Purpose and development of the CALL-OTL survey.
- CALL-ECL Research Team (2024, February). Cross-district patterns in the design and implementation of equity-centered leadership pathways, part 2.
- CALL-ECL Research Team (2023, August). Cross-district patterns in the design and implementation of equity-centered leadership pathways, part 1.
- CALL-ECL Research Team & CORS Research Team (2023, February). ECPI research analytic memos.
- CALL-ECL Research Team (2022, September). CALL-ECL pipeline study: Analytic memo #1.
Articles in Preparation/Under Review
- Molle, D., Diamond, J., Handsman, E., Choi, Y., Jones, W., Mosby, J., & Halverson, R. (under revision). Change frames: How district teams approach the building of systems that support leadership for equity. Urban Education.
- Awaludin, A., & Halverson, R. (review and resubmit). “Connecting the dots”: A social network Analysis of interorganizational partnerships for designing equity-centered principal preparation programs. Journal of Educational Administration.
- Diamond, J., Molle, D., Jones, W., Acosta, J. (in preparation). Submission to Impact on Politicized Attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Education, Peabody Journal of Education Special Issue
- Molle, D., Iverson, D., & Halverson, R. (in preparation). District-university partnerships as learning spaces: Working across boundaries. American Educational Research Journal.
- Molle, D., White, M., Bainazarov, T., Hennessey, L., & Halverson, R. (in preparation). School leaders’ priorities for creating more equitable teaching and learning in schools. Educational Administration Quarterly.
- Nott, E., Greer, C., & Molle, D. (in preparation). Partnership and politicized care: Community voices in district-wide equity work.
- Liou, Y., Molle, D., Childs, J., Saldaña, C. (in preparation). Building capacity to advance equity in schools: The role of partnerships. Educational Administration Quarterly.