Olsen, B. (2010). Teaching for Success: Developing your Teacher Identity in Today’s Classroom. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
Quartz, K.H., Olsen, B., Anderson, L., and Barraza Lyons, K. (2009). Making a Difference: Constructing Meaningful Careers in Education. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
Olsen, B. (2008). Teaching what they learn, learning what they live: How Teachers' Personal Histories Shape Their Professional Development. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.

Olsen, B., & Sexton, D. (2009). Threat rigidity, school reform, and how teachers view their work inside current education policy contexts. American Educational Research Journal, 46(1), 9-44.
Olsen, B. (2008). How reasons for entry into the profession illuminate teacher identity development. Teacher Education Quarterly, 35(3).
Quartz, K., Thomas, A., Anderson, L., Masyn, K., Barraza Lyons, K., and Olsen, B. (2008). Careers in Motion: A Longitudinal Retention Study of Role Changing Among Early Career Urban Educators. Teachers College Record, 110(1). 218-250.
Olsen, B. and Anderson, L. (2007). Courses of action: A qualitative investigation into urban teacher retention and career development. Urban Education 42(1). 5-29.
Anderson, L. and Olsen, B. (2006). Investigating teachers’ perspectives on and experiences in early career professional development. Journal of Teacher Education, 57(4). 359-377.
Olsen, B. (2006). Using sociolinguistic methods to uncover speaker meaning in teacher interview transcripts. The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 19(2). 147-161.
Olsen, B. and Kirtman, L. (2002). Teacher as mediator of school reform: An examination of teacher practice in 36 California restructuring schools. Teachers College Record, 104(2). 301-324.

Olsen, B. (2011). “I am Large, I Contain Multitudes”: Teacher Identity as Useful Frame for Research, Practice, and Diversity in Teacher Education. In A. Ball and C. Tyson (Eds.) The American Educational Research Association Handbook on Studying Diversity in Teacher Education. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Quartz, K., Olsen, B., and Duncan-Andrade, J. (2008). The fragility of urban teaching: A longitudinal study of career development and activism. In F. Peterman (Ed.) Resiliency, resistance, and persistence in transcending traditional boundaries: Communities partnering to prepare urban teachers. Washington DC: American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) Press.
Hoffman-Kipp, P. and Olsen, B. (2007). Accessing praxis, practicing theory: Theorizing practice in social justice teachers’ first year of teaching. In M. and P. Finn (Eds.) Teacher education with an attitude. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Olsen, B., with Lane, S., Metcalfe, E., Priselac, J., Suzuki, G., and Williams, R.J. (2005). Center X: Where research and practice intersect for urban school professionals–A portrait of the teacher education program at the University of California, Los Angeles. In P. Jenlink (Ed.) Portraits of teacher preparation: Learning to teach in a changing America. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Olsen, B. (2011-) Contributor to Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) Conditions of Education blog. Link
Olsen, B. (2010). General editor for The Teacher’s Toolkit (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers).
Olsen, B. (2008). “Teachers should be part of school reform process.” Op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Olsen, B. (2008). “Introducing Teacher Identity and This Volume.” Teacher Education Quarterly, 35(3) Link to PDF
Olsen, B. (guest ed.) (2008). Teacher Identity as Useful Frame for Study and Practice of Teacher Education. Special issue of the Teacher Education Quarterly, 35(3).