Journal of Scholarship & Practice Articles

The article discusses the importance of "negative imagination" for school leaders to anticipate and prepare for unexpected events. It highlights the need for proactive planning, using data and imagination to predict crises, and offers insights from various researchers on improving educational leadership through equity audits, early warning systems, and large-scale innovations.

This article explores how leadership preparation programs can use equity audit experiences to help school leaders adopt transformative practices and close equity gaps during politically tense times.

This article explores the Montana Early Warning System (EWS), investigating its statewide implementation, predictive efficiency, and effectiveness in improving graduation rates among high, low, and non-adopting schools, highlighting significant benefits for students in high adoption schools.

This article highlights the prevalent use of restraint and seclusion in schools, particularly affecting students with disabilities, emphasizing recent U.S. Justice Department guidance aligning with research advocating for limited and emergency-only use of such practices, while proposing three systemic changes—implementing positive behavior intervention supports, supporting students in crisis, and involving families—to mitigate or eradicate their use.

Principals need more support in areas like technology, social-emotional support, and flexibility.

The results show that schools who sustained the TAP System significantly out perform matched comparison schools.

This article examines the categorization of public education as a "monopoly". It also unpacks the 2024 spring issue of the AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice.

This study investigates the impact of COVID-19 on Texas K-12 campus leaders' curriculum integration and perceptions of technology.

This research article advocates for a shift from one-to-one device access towards an anti-racist approach to technology integration in schools.

It takes work to become a forward-thinking leader.