Research
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Kaler, L., Theobald, R., Jones, N., & Bettini, E. (2026). Impacts of paraeducator and teacher turnover on student outcomes. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness.
Kaler, L. & Theobald, R. (2026). Turnover patterns in the paraeducator workforce in Washington state. Teacher Education and Special Education.
Theobald, R., Kaler, L., Bettini, E., & Jones, N. (2025). A descriptive portrait of the paraeducator workforce in Washington state. Exceptional Children.
Morris-Mathews, H., Kaler, L., Ragunathan, M, Bettini, E., & Meyer, K. (2025). “Well, those students have a name”: Special educators’ beliefs about students labeled with emotional/behavioral disorders. Exceptional Children.
Jones, N., Kaler, L., Markham-Anderson, J., Senese, J., & Winters, M. (2025). Service delivery models: Impacts for students with and without disabilities. Educational Researcher.
Stark, K., Camburn, E., & Kaler, L. (2025). Variation in teachers’ daily, situational motivation across professional activities. British Journal of Educational Psychology.
Kaler, L., Markham-Anderson, J., & Jones, N. (2024). Service delivery models and outcomes for students with disabilities. Remedial and Special Education.
Stark, K., Jones, N., Camburn, E., & Kaler, L. (2023). Measuring teachers’ momentary affect: An exploratory experience sampling study. Contemporary Educational Psychology.
Green, J.G., Morabito, M., Savage, J., Goodman, N., Lincoln, E., Lanciani, J., Carroll, M., Kaler, L., Cooper, C., Norton, M., Vasquez, G., & Muller, R. (2023). Reasons police respond in schools: An analysis of narrative data from police incident reports. Child Abuse & Neglect.
Bettini, E., Scott, L.A., Brunsting, N.C., Kaler, L., Parker Moore, D., O’Brien, K.M., & Cumming, M.C. (2022). Experiences of working conditions among special education teachers of color serving students with EBD. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.
Book Chapters
Bettini, E., Morris-Mathews, H., Lillis, J., Meyer, K., Shaheen, T., Kaler, L., & Brunsting, N.C. (2021). Special educators’ roles in inclusive schools. Invited chapter for J. McLeskey, F. Spooner, B. Algozzine, & N.L. Waldron (Eds.), Handbook of Effective, Inclusive Elementary Schools: Research and Practice.
Working Papers and Reports
Kaler, L., O’Neill, M.K., Strach, P., & Moffitt, S. (2026). California’s system of special education staffing (Getting Down to Facts III Technical Report). Stanford University and Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE.
Kaler, L., Arnzen, C., Contreras, A., Natividad, B., Stull, N. & Moffitt, S. (2026). The politics of administrative ease: Public access to local special education information (Annenberg EdWorkingPaper No. 26-1447). Annenberg Institute at Brown University.
Cleveland, C., Kaler, L., & Anderson, J. (2025). Leveraging IEPs to understand special education services at scale (WEPC Working Paper 2025-4). Wheelock Education Policy Center.
Other Writing
Kaler, L., Aceves-Romero, N.B., Alonso, J., Anderson-Thompson, A., Arpino, M., Nicole Arshan, Balasubramanian, L., Bridgeforth, J., Carver-Thomas, D., Casar, M., Darling-Hammond, L., Estrada, J., Fisher, P., Hernández, L.E., Immordino-Yang, M.H., Garcia, A., Gee, K., Hernández, L.E., Hurtt, A., Immordino-Yang, M.H., Katz, E., Kini, T., Knecht, D., Kurlaender, M., Lemons, C.J., Leung-Gagné, M., Liu, S., Loeb, S., Maier, A., Marsh, J., Moffitt, S., Mulfinger, L., Naseer, M., O'Neill, M.K., Pickett, A., Prim, J., Rodgers, V., Sanchez, E.R., Sattin-Bajaj, C., Schueler, B., Sorensen, L., Steil M.D.F., Strach, P., Sun, C., Swain, W., Uka, A., Unnikrishnan, R., Wei, W., Winn, M., Winn, L., Yu, P., Ziegler, L. (2026). Student well-being in California's current context: Policy, conditions, and supports (Getting Down to Facts III Research Brief). Stanford University and Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE.
Goodman, J., Kaler, L., & Meyer, K. (March 2021). Massachusetts school district plans for keeping students learning (Summary Report for Statewide COVID-19 Reopening Plan Analysis). Wheelock Educational Policy Center.