Special Recognition and Thanks to Christopher Tienken

AASA, The School Superintendents Association would like to assume editorial privilege in this volume to thank Dr. Christopher Tienken for the time and effort he has given to the AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice. Chris took on the challenge of editing the Journal in spite of a full class load as assistant professor in Seton Hall University’s Department of Education Leadership, Management, and Policy in the College of Education and Human Services.

He had a vision in January 2009 for what the Journal could be and undertook that mission with thirty one volumes published under his leadership. We are indebted to his contributions. In addition to reviewing hundreds of manuscripts, always with an eye on those that met the criteria he and his editorial review board set forth, he then assigned the manuscript to one of his editorial board of review members through a blind peer review for input.

From that input he assigned it to whoever was working as his teacher assistant at the time to fine-tune the article. He did a final review before sending off to us for formatting and final editing. Where there were missing pieces or uncertainty, he was able to achieve a quick turnaround with writers so that we could meet publication deadlines.