Positions

Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Foundations, College of Education

Contact Info

joneskare15@ecu.edu

252-328-2856

Publications in VIVO

Co-author Network

Co-investigator Network

Karen Diane Jones

member of

selected publications

article
- Fostering the Multicultural Efficacy of Principal Candidates. Journal of Organizational and Educational Leaadership. 9. 2023
- Gatekeepers in Gifted: A Case Study of the Disproportionality of Gifted Black Youth in Elementary Programs. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership. 24:64-80. 2021
- Shifting Principal Preparation Candidates' Common Beliefs of Diversity in School Settings. School Leadership and Management. 2021
- Symbiotic Partnership: Using a virtual coaching model to develop principal and teacher candidates. Education Leadership Review. 22. 2021
- A clear and consistent focus on students: Principals' perceptions of the role of school counselors. Journal of School Leadership. 2020
- Gatekeepers in Gifted: A Case Study of the Disproportionality of Gifted Black Youth in Elementary Programs. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership. 2020
- Increasing principal candidates' self-efficacy though virtual coaching. Journal of Organizational & Educational Leadership. 4. 2019
- Teaching ethics in educational leadership using the Values-Issues-Action (VIA) Model.. Journal of Research on Leadership Education. 15:150-163. 2019
- Preparing principal candidates to be instructional leaders through virtual coaching preservice teachers. Journal of Research on Leadership Education. 13. 2018
- Increasing principal preparation candidates' awareness of biases in educational environment. International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation. 12:69-82. 2017
- Finding the Customers: Challenges and Experiences Marketing K-12 Full-time Virtual Schools. American Journal of Distance Education. 2016
chapter
- <p>Supporting School Communities Through Trauma-Informed Leadership</p>. Elgar Publishing. 2026
- <p>Connecting the dots: Program coordinator as school-district-university partnership facilitator</p> 2023
- Connecting the dots: Program coordinator as school-district-university partnership facilitator. Information Age Publishing. 2023
- It's a marathon, not a sprint: Gifted professional learning and the change process from the administrator's shoes. Prufrock Press. 2020
- Preparing school leaders for dual language programs in rural settings. IGI Global. 2020
- Our School Behavioral Health "Y'Alliance": The development of a rural school-community-university collaboration focused on supporting children who have experienced trauma. Information Age Publishing. 2020
- A Reimagined Ed.D.: Participatory, progressive on-line pedagogy. IGI Global. 2019
- Using Video Capture and Annotation Technology to Strengthen Reflective Practices and Feedback in Educator Preparation. IGI Global. 2019
- Learning by leading in the classroom: A rural research-practice partnership. Information Age Publishing. 2018

presentations

presentation

principal investigator on

ECU SPED SIP/IHE Partnership 2021 - 2022 awarded by NCDPI - North Carolina Department of Public Instruction 2021 - 2022
ECU SPED SIP/IHE Partnership 2020 awarded by NCDPI - North Carolina Department of Public Instruction 2019 - 2022
Creating a Sustainable Campus Coordinator Support System for the North Carolina Principal Fellows Program awarded by North Carolina Principal Fellows Program 2019

co-principal investigator on

ECU Principal Fellows Program - Funding for FY27 - FY32 - Continued Funding for PLA1 and PLA2 awarded by UNCSO - University of North Carolina System Office 2026 - 2032
Additional Principal Preparation Participant Funding for FY 2022-23 thru FY 2027-28 - supplement to 21-0789 awarded by UNCSO - University of North Carolina System Office 2022 - 2028
ECU Principal Fellows Program awarded by UNCSO - University of North Carolina System Office 2022 - 2028
Additional Principal Preparation Funding for 2023-24 thru 2026-27 - supplement to 21-0789 awarded by UNCSO - University of North Carolina System Office 2023 - 2027
Pender County - Improving Teacher Retention Through a Tiered Model of Support awarded by University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNCCH) 2024 - 2026
Project edPIRATE (Educator Pipeline In Rural Action for Teaching Equity) awarded by ED - Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) 2022 - 2025
ECU SPED SIP/IHE Partnership awarded by North Carolina Department of Instruction 2020

investigator on

NCPFPTP3-102220-03 ECU Principal Fellows Grant Year 6 awarded by UNCSO - University of North Carolina System Office 2025 - 2026
PIRATE Leadership Academy (PLA) awarded by North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority (NCSEAA) 2020 - 2026

professional service activities

Task Force on Principal Standards, Licensure and Evaluation with NC DPI 2023 - 2025
North Carolina Professors of Educational Leadership (NC PEL) 2019 - 2021
International Journal of Leadership in Education 2021
North Carolina Southeast Education Alliance Provide Professional Development for assistant principals in Southeast NC on the topics of school law, discipline and disproportionality. 2019
North Carolina Association of School Administrators Board Member 2018
North Carolina Professors of Educational Leadership 2018
Reviewer for UCEA Conference Proposals 2017
American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2015
University Council for Educational Leadership (UCEA) 2015

awards and honors

Wedemeyer Award, conferred by American Journal of Distance Education, 2018

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