Wei-Ling Sun is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Foundations. She received a Ph.D. from the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at The University of Texas at Austin, with a graduate portfolio in women and gender studies. Her research examines the social and political dimensions of discipline policy reforms and culturally responsive school leadership. She is currently studying sociopolitical contexts of the school-to-prison pipeline from high school principals' perspectives and the impact of COVID-19 in borderland schools. In the summer of 2016, she was a Bill Archer Graduate Fellow with the University of Texas System, where she spent the summer working as a policy analyst with a leading civil rights organization, Advancement Project, in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 2019, American Educational Research Association (AERA) named her as a congressional fellow for 2019-20. She worked as a legislative fellow for a member of Congress and used her education research expertise to inform public policy.

• Social Justice Teaching Award - American Educational Research Association (01/01/2024-12/31/2024)
• NAEd/ Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship (Semifinalist) - NAEd (05/01/2024-05/31/2024)
• AERA Congressional Fellowship - American Educational American Association (08/01/2019)

• Ph D in Educational Policy and Leadership Studies, The University of Texas at Austin (2018)

• Culturally-responsive disciplinary strategies after returning to the in-person learning environment in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic IGI Global (2023), Wei-Ling Sun.
• The Competitive Effects of School Choice on Student Achievement: A Systematic Review Educational Policy 36 2 (2022), Jabbar Huriya, Carlton J. Fong, Emily Germain, Dongmei Li, Joanna Sanchez, Wei-Ling Sun, Michelle Devall.
• Reframing Policy Discourse on the School-to-Prison Pipeline Urban Review (2021), Wei-Ling Sun, Valenzuela Angela.

• (De)Coloniality of school discipline systems: a critical and historical review of the literature. (2025), Volume Colorado, Wei-Ling Sun, Daniel Liou.
• Coloniality of school discipline policies (2024), Volume Los Angeles, Wei-Ling Sun, Daniel Liou.
• (De)Coloniality of school-wide school discipline systems: historical and sociopolitical inquiry (2024), Volume South Carolina, Wei-Ling Sun, Daniel Liou.
• Victims, Perpetrators, and innocents: How a legacy of blocking Brown v. Board of Education’s objectives still adversely impacts school leaders in their fight for equity. (2024), Volume Orlando, Mark Gooden, Tiffany Puckett, Rhodesia McMilliam, Wei-Ling Sun.
• Chasing the spirit of Brown v. Board of Education in the pursuit of racial justice in today’s Miliken: An engaging panel (2023), Volume Reno-Tahoe, Mark A. Gooden, Wei-Ling Sun.

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