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Kara Lasater
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Associate Professor
Also affiliated: Aridhia (United Kingdom) (2024); Pittsburg State University (2011)
8 h-index
35 pubs
290 cited
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Biography and Research Information
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Kara Lasater's research primarily focuses on data utilization in educational settings and the development of rare disease treatments. Her work has investigated how data practices can influence perceptions of equity in schools, examining the "Data Culture Continuum" and the role of data in fostering deficit thinking. Lasater has also explored the impact of parent-teacher conflict on students and family-school partnerships, as well as the self-care practices of school principals and their engagement in professional development. More recently, her research has extended to the critical area of rare disease drug development, specifically contributing to the Rare Disease Cures Accelerator-Data Analytics Platform (RDCA-DAP). She has a h-index of 9, with 33 total publications and 303 citations.
Metrics
- h-index: 8
- Publications: 35
- Citations: 290
Positions
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Associate Professor 2023–presentUniversity of Arkansas Department of Curriculum and Instruction ORCID
Selected Publications
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Alcohol Awareness, Prevention, and Education in Greek Life (2026)Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science OpenAlex
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Centering Relationships in Leadership Preparation (2025)
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The Prevention of Nicotine use in the State of Arkansas that has Geographic Tobacco use Disparities: the Perceived Prevention Needs and Realities of School Professionals (2025)
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Compassionate Leadership as Witness: Paying Attention When We Don’t Want to Know (2022)
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Families, Schools, and Addiction: (Re)Envisioning Schools as Places of Hope and Healing (2022)
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Compassion: the legacy of the pandemic in rural schools and communities (2022)
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Developing Family-School Partnerships in the Midst of Demographic Change: An Examination of Educators’ Attitudes, Values, and Beliefs and the Discourses They Shape (2021)
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Redefining mentorship in an era of crisis: responding to COVID-19 through compassionate relationships (2021)
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Developing Positive Data Cultures in High-Stakes Environments: The Role of School Leaders (2021)
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The Case for Considering Intellectual Virtues in Educational Leadership (2020)
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Data Use Among Principals and Teachers: Divergent Paths or Common Ground? (2020)
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The self-care practices of school principals (2020)
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Data use for equity?: How data practices incite deficit thinking in schools (2020)
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The Data Culture Continuum: An Examination of School Data Cultures (2019)
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Principal Engagement in the Professional Development Process (2019)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Ed Bengtson
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
6 shared publications
In database
- Data use for equity?: How data practices incite deficit thinking in schools
- The Data Culture Continuum: An Examination of School Data Cultures
- Principal Engagement in the Professional Development Process
- Data Use Among Principals and Teachers: Divergent Paths or Common Ground?
- An Online CPED Educational Leadership Program: Student Perspectives on Its Value and Influence on Professional Practice
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
John Pijanowski
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
6 shared publications
In database
- The self-care practices of school principals
- Redefining mentorship in an era of crisis: responding to COVID-19 through compassionate relationships
- Principal Engagement in the Professional Development Process
- Developing Family-School Partnerships in the Midst of Demographic Change: An Examination of Educators’ Attitudes, Values, and Beliefs and the Discourses They Shape
- Centering Relationships in Leadership Preparation
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
Waheeb S. Albiladi
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (US)
4 shared publications
- Data use for equity?: How data practices incite deficit thinking in schools
- The Data Culture Continuum: An Examination of School Data Cultures
- Data Use Among Principals and Teachers: Divergent Paths or Common Ground?
- Developing Positive Data Cultures in High-Stakes Environments: The Role of School Leaders
Kristina N. LaVenia
Bowling Green State University (US)
2 shared publications
- Families, Schools, and Addiction: (Re)Envisioning Schools as Places of Hope and Healing
- Compassionate Leadership as Witness: Paying Attention When We Don’t Want to Know
Maureen Murphy-Lee
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (US)
1 shared publication
- An Online CPED Educational Leadership Program: Student Perspectives on Its Value and Influence on Professional Practice
Michael John Koonce
Kansas Public Schools (US)
1 shared publication
- Principal Engagement in the Professional Development Process
William S. Davis
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (US)
1 shared publication
- The Data Culture Continuum: An Examination of School Data Cultures
Joshua Ray
1 shared publication
- The self-care practices of school principals
Kevin P. Brady
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
1 shared publication
In database
- Redefining mentorship in an era of crisis: responding to COVID-19 through compassionate relationships
Tracey Crowe
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (US)
1 shared publication
- Developing Family-School Partnerships in the Midst of Demographic Change: An Examination of Educators’ Attitudes, Values, and Beliefs and the Discourses They Shape
Meghan Scales
1 shared publication
- Compassion: the legacy of the pandemic in rural schools and communities
Kelley Sells
Kansas Public Schools (US)
1 shared publication
- Compassion: the legacy of the pandemic in rural schools and communities
Meleah Hoskins
College of the Muscogee Nation (US)
1 shared publication
- Compassion: the legacy of the pandemic in rural schools and communities
Jordan Dickey
Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center (US)
1 shared publication
- Compassion: the legacy of the pandemic in rural schools and communities
Ashley H. Clawson
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
1 shared publication
In database
- The Prevention of Nicotine use in the State of Arkansas that has Geographic Tobacco use Disparities: the Perceived Prevention Needs and Realities of School Professionals
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