Announcements

• IJEPL Volume 22, Issue 1

  2026-08-20

  The International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership (IJEPL) has now published Volume 22, Issue 1. We invite you to read the following articles:

  Being a Principal for Extended Educational Services at School: Perspectives on What Matters—Structure, Culture, and Leadership by Patricia Schuler, Helene Elvstrand, & Lena Bostroem

  Collective Leader Efficacy: Developing a Systems Construct to Strengthen Instructional Leadership Teams by Peter DeWitt & Michael Nelson

  Between Headlines and Hallways: The Cost of Ideological Policy on 2SLGBTQIA+ Youth by Michelle Bussière-Prytula, Adrienne Schenk, & Christopher Florizone

  What Little We Know: A Scoping Review of the Research Utilization Literature in Education Policy by David Garcia

  The Triple-D Model for Evidence-Informed Educational Practice: Decision-Making and Diversity of Evidence by Kristin Vanlommel, Evelyn Goffin, & Jan Vanhoof

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• IJEPL Volume 21, Issue 4

  2025-12-11

  The International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership (IJEPL) has now published Volume 21, Issue 4. We invite you to read the following articles:

  Building Mental Health Capacity in Schools: Early Lessons from a Canadian Initiative  by Sharon Friesen, Stephen MacGregor, Dennis Sumara, Jennifer Turner, & Brenna Mesner

  Policy Reforms Positioning Preschool Teachers from Invisible to Visible by Anna Öqvist & Sara Cervantes

  Québec’s Strategy to Incentivize Associate Teacher Mentorship for Practicums Amid a Teacher Shortage by Joanne Pattison-Meek

  Principles for Determining the Costs of Professional Development for School Leaders  by Carlas McCauley

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• IJEPL Vol. 21 No. 3 (2025): Teacher Leadership

  2025-10-03

   Special Issue on Teacher Leadership is now live. IJEPL invites you to read the following Teacher Leadership articles:

  Introduction: Teacher Leadership by Sharon Friesen, Barbara Brown

  Teacher Leadership and School/System Change: Exploring the Contemporary Evidence by Alma Harris, Michelle Jones, Nashwa Ismail

  System-School Alignment in Support of Teacher Leadership: An Australian Case Study by Joan Conway, Dorothy Andrews, Karen Trimmer

  Enabling Teacher Leadership through Educational Entrepreneurship by Jodi Nickel, Charles F. Webber

  Quality Education in Singapore: Bridging Teacher Leadership with Teacher Wellbeing by Catherine SIew Kheng Chua, Li Mei Johannah Soo, Hui Shi Elisa Chng

  Examining the Practice of Teacher Leadership Across Nevada: How Is Context Associated with Practice? by Peter Wiens, KaaVonia Hinton, Ami Pritchard

  New Teachers Identify Teacher Leaders as Key Support for Transition into the Profession by Barbara Brown, Sharon Friesen

  Toward an Explanation of Variations in Teachers’ Perceptions of Teacher Leadership byPeng Liu, Lili Liu, Rosheedat Adeniji

  Developing Non-Positional Teacher Leadership of Formative Assessment Practices: Findings from the Teacher-Led Learning Circles Project by Carol Campbell, Christopher DeLuca, Danielle LaPointe-McEwan, Nathan Rickey, Maeva CeauIJEPL

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• Volume 21, Issue 2: The Rise of Education Marketization and the Enduring Enigma of School Segregation

  2025-09-11

  IJEPL: Special Issue

  Vol. 21 No. 2 (2025): The Rise of Education Marketization and the Enduring Enigma of School Segregation

  Introduction: The Rise of Education Marketization and the Enduring Enigma of School Segregation by Ee-Seul Yoon, Christopher Lubienski

  Educational Structures and Social Closure: Private Schooling, Curriculum Differentiation and Social Segregation in French Secondary Education by Quentin Maire, Andres Molina

  The Critical Policy Geography of School Choice: Spatial Inequity and Segregation in Montréal by Ee-Seul Yoon, Corinne DeWiele

  Reframing Educational Excellence Through Improvement: Change and Continuity in Media Representations by Joel Windle

  School Privatization and Socioeconomic Segregation: An International Comparison of Effects on Student Global Competence Using PISA 2018 by Andres Molina, Beatriz Gallo Cordoba

  Commentary

  Reflections on School Privatization, Marketization, Segregation, and Inequality: Timely for Current Legal and Policy Debates in the United States and the World by Erica Frankenberg

   

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• Volume 20, Issue 2

  2024-12-25

  The International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership (IJEPL) has just completed publishing Volume 20, Issue 2. Articles in this issue include:

  Leadership

  Experiencing Leadership Connecting Theoretical Concepts and Practices of Leadership in Educational Contexts

  Cristina Eftenaru

  Examining Career Paths of Women in Educational Leadership: The Impact of Age, Gender, Maternity and Parental Leaves

  Komla Essiomle, Leticia Nadler, Samira ElAtia

  Policy

  Teacher Induction Policy Development and Implementation: A Case of Ontario’s New Teacher Induction Program (NTIP)

  Benjamin Kutsyuruba, Lorraine Godden, Keith Walker

  Participating—or Being Part of an Organizational Change: Narratives of Participation Related to School Closures to Reduce School Segregation

  Karin K. Flensner, Ylva Svensson

  Thank you for your continued interest in IJEPL.

  Happy Holidays,

  The Editors

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• Volume 20, Issue 1

  2024-09-23

  The International Journal of Education Policy & Leadership has now published Volume 20, Issue 1. Articles in this issue include

  Leadership

  • Principal Support for Teacher Vitality: An Empirical Analysis in Low-Performing Schools  by Curt Adams, Daniel Hamlin, Olajumoke Adigun    20 pp

  Policy

  • The Process of Self-Leadership: Establishing Yourself as Leader No Matter Your Role  by Annie George-Puskar, Elizabeth Beavers, Deborah Bruns, & Chloe Lindner         16 pp
  • Racial Bias in Academia: An Audit Experiment Revealing Disparities in Faculty Responses to Prospective Students by Benjamin Goldsmith, Megan MacKenzie, & Thomas Wynter    23 pp

  Research Use

  • Measures of Economic Disadvantage Explain Outcomes Differently Across Geographies  by Robin Clausen.   16 pp
  • “Putting Science into Action”: A Case Study of How an Educational Intermediary Organization Synthesizes and Translates Research Evidence for Practice  by Ashley Metzger, Addison Duane, Amia Nash, & Valerie Shapiro    19 pp

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• Volume 19, Issue 2

  2023-12-21

  The International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership (IJEPL) has just completed publishing Volume 19, Issue 2. Articles in this issue include:

   Policy and Leadership

  Teachers' Perspectives on Teacher Self-Efficacy and Principal Leadership Characteristics

  Carolyn Hayward & Matthew Ohlson

  Another Tragedy in Outdoor Education

  Andrew Foran, David Young, & Jeff Jackson

  The Role of Accountability in the Belgian Education System: From Control Regulation to Autonomous Regulation

  Fabienne Renard, Antoine Derobertmasure, & Marc Demeuse

  A Walking Curriculum: From “Good Ideas for Walks” to Transformative Design for Eco-Social Change

  Gillian Judson & Michael Datura

  Counseling Loss as a New Variable in the Education Production Function

  Tara Hornor &Lee A. Westberry

  Research Use

  What Makes Education Research Impactful – Case Studies of Research Projects in Singapore

  Puay Huat Chua, Dr Goh Sao-Ee, Ms Lorraine Ow, Ms Monica Ong, Chiam Ching Leen, & Monica Lim

  The Impact of Leader in Me on the School Climate and Student Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis

  Elizabeth Villares, A. Eve Miller, & Jennifer Chevalier

  Thank you for your continued interest in IJEPL.

  Happy Holidays,

  The Editors

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• Volume 19, Issue 1

  2023-07-24

  Dear Readers,

   

  The International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership (IJEPL) has now published Volume 19, Issue 1. You now have open access to the following articles:

  Policy and Leadership

  • Virtual School Counseling and Covid-19 as Seen Through an Organizational Learning Lens by Tara Hornor & Lee A. Westberry

   

  • Factors Related to Teacher Resilience during COVID-19 by David T. Marshall, David M. Shannon, Savanna M. Love, & Natalie M. Neugebauer

   

  • Transformational and Instructional Leadership in Cross-Thematic Teaching by Athanasia Gaitanidou, Athanasios Laios, Vassiliki Derri, & Dimitrios Chatzoudes

   

  • Middle Leading Practices of Facilitation, Mentoring, and Coaching for Teacher Development: A Focus on Intent and Relationality by Christine Edwards-Groves, Catherine Attard, Peter Grootenboer, & Sharon Tindall-Ford

  Research Use

  • How Universities Gaslight EDI&I Initiatives: Mapping Institutional Resistance to Structural Change by Megan MacKenzie, Özlem Sensoy, Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Nathalie Sinclair, & Laurel Weldon

  Thank you for your continued interest in IJEPL.

  The Editors

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• IJEPL Volume, Issue 2

  2022-12-15

  The complete issue of the International Journal of Education and Leadership, Volume 18. Issue 2, is now available online. Articles include

  Policy & Leadership

  Similarities and Differences in the Structure and Interpretation of Empowerment and Job Satisfaction between Minority and Majority Faculty Members  by Jordan Lasker & Jon McNaughtan

  Leadership Strategy for Equitable and Just Policing Education and Training at Valencia College by Jeffrey Goltz

  Research Use

  School Counselors and Administrators Agree: Time and Testing are Barriers by TeShaunda Hannor-Walker, Robert Pincus, Leonis S. Wright, Wendy Rock, Jennifer Money-Brady, & Lynn Bohecker

  Achieving Research-Informed Practice Amongst Teachers in Madrid and Catalonia: Findings From a Quantitative Analysis by Georgeta Ion

  FELEing It: Developing a Rubric Through an Interdisciplinary Partnership to Support Graduate Students’ Writing Skills by Onder Koklu, Maureen Ungarean, Krista Bixler, Krista Casazza, Elizabeth Weatherford, & Jason Elek

  Happy Holidays

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• IJEPL 18(2)

  2022-12-15

  The International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership has now published its latest issue, Volume 18, Issue 2. The articles include

  Policy & Leadership

  Similarities and Differences in the Structure and Interpretation of Empowerment and Job Satisfaction between Minority and Majority Faculty Members  by Jordan Lasker, Jon McNaughtan Leadership Strategy for Equitable and Just Policing Education and Training at Valencia College by Jeffrey Goltz Research Use School Counselors and Administrators Agree: Time and Testing are Barriers  by TeShaunda Hannor-Walker, Robert Pincus, Leonis S. Wright, Wendy Rock, Jennifer Money-Brady, Lynn Bohecker Achieving Research-Informed Practice Amongst Teachers in Madrid and Catalonia: Findings From a Quantitative Analysis  by Georgeta Ion FELEing It: Developing a Rubric Through an Interdisciplinary Partnership to Support Graduate Students’ Writing Skills by Onder Koklu; Maureen Ungarean; Krista Bixler, Krista Casazza , Elizabeth Weatherford , Jason Elek

  Happy Holidays!

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• Volume 18(1) Published

  2022-06-23

  Volume 18, Issue 1, of the International Journal of Education Policy and Research is now complete. This issue features:

  Una Faccia, Una Razza: Similarities, Differences, and Parallels in Adult Education Policy Development in Greece and Italy

  by George Koulaouzides & Alessandra Romano

  The Encouragement and Constraint of Distributed Leadership Via Education Policy Reform in Nova Scotia, Canada: A Delicate Balancing Act

  by Monica Williams & David Young

  Principals’ Leadership Needs for Effective Management of Secondary Schools in Meme and Fako Divisions of Cameroon

  by Ngemunang Agnes Ngale Lyonga

  An Examination of Teacher Experience and Perception of Leadership Effort on Commitment to Stay Using Mediation Analysis

  by Ted Kaniuka & Miriam Chitiga

  Leadership-Focused Coaching in Action: An Approach to Continuous Improvement and Supporting Public Schools

  by Julie A Gray, Aneta Walker, Sherri Zimmerman, & James Dickson

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