| From heroes to organizers: Principals and education organizing in urban school reform A Ishimaru Educational Administration Quarterly 49 (1), 3-51, 2013 | 330 | 2013 |
| Just schools: Building equitable collaborations with families and communities AM Ishimaru Teachers College Press, 2019 | 281 | 2019 |
| Reinforcing deficit, journeying toward equity: Cultural brokering in family engagement initiatives AM Ishimaru, KE Torres, JE Salvador, J Lott, DMC Williams, C Tran American Educational Research Journal 53 (4), 850-882, 2016 | 269 | 2016 |
| From family engagement to equitable collaboration AM Ishimaru Educational Policy 33 (2), 350-385, 2019 | 267 | 2019 |
| Rewriting the rules of engagement: Elaborating a model of district-community collaboration A Ishimaru Harvard Educational Review 84 (2), 188-216, 2014 | 243 | 2014 |
| Examining organizational learning in schools: The role of psychological safety, experimentation, and leadership that reinforces learning M Higgins, A Ishimaru, R Holcombe, A Fowler Journal of Educational Change 13, 67-94, 2012 | 220 | 2012 |
| Beyond individual effectiveness: Conceptualizing organizational leadership for equity AM Ishimaru, MK Galloway Leadership and policy in schools 13 (1), 93-146, 2014 | 195 | 2014 |
| Radical recentering: Equity in educational leadership standards MK Galloway, AM Ishimaru Educational Administration Quarterly 51 (3), 372-408, 2015 | 153 | 2015 |
| Disrupting racialized institutional scripts: Toward parent–teacher transformative agency for educational justice AM Ishimaru, S Takahashi Peabody Journal of Education 92 (3), 343-362, 2017 | 123 | 2017 |
| “Darles el lugar”: A place for nondominant family knowing in educational equity F Barajas-López, AM Ishimaru Urban Education 55 (1), 38-65, 2020 | 110 | 2020 |
| Equitable leadership on the ground: Converging on high-leverage practices MK Galloway, AM Ishimaru Education Policy Analysis Archives/Archivos Analíticos de Políticas …, 2017 | 92 | 2017 |
| When new relationships meet old narratives: The journey towards improving parent-school relations in a district-community organizing collaboration AM Ishimaru Teachers College Record 116 (2), 1-56, 2014 | 88 | 2014 |
| Leading Equity Teams: The Role of Formal Leaders in Building Organizational Capacity for Equity MK Galloway, AM Ishimaru Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR), 1-19, 2019 | 87 | 2019 |
| Hearts and minds first: Institutional logics in pursuit of educational equity AM Ishimaru, MK Galloway Educational Administration Quarterly 57 (3), 470-502, 2021 | 73 | 2021 |
| Centering family knowledge to develop children’s empowered mathematics identities AM Ishimaru, F Barajas-López, M Bang Journal of Family Diversity in Education 1 (4), 1-21, 2015 | 72 | 2015 |
| Re-imagining turnaround: Families and communities leading educational justice AM Ishimaru Journal of Educational Administration 56 (5), 546-561, 2018 | 50 | 2018 |
| Community design circles: Co-designing justice and wellbeing in family-community-research partnerships AM Ishimaru, A Rajendran, CM Nolan, M Bang Journal of Family Diversity in Education 3 (2), 38-63, 2018 | 45 | 2018 |
| Recasting families and communities as co-designers of education in tumultuous times AM Ishimaru, M Bang, MR Valladares, CM Nolan, H Tavares, ... Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved October 1, 2020, 2019 | 42 | 2019 |
| Managing for results at the New York City department of education S Childress, MC Higgins, A Ishimaru, S Takahashi | 35 | 2011 |
| Families in the driver's seat: Catalyzing familial transformative agency for equitable collaboration AM Ishimaru, JL Lott, KE Torres, K O'Reilly-Diaz Teachers College Record 121 (11), 1-39, 2019 | 34 | 2019 |