Become a Regular AASA Blogger
Are you passionate about educational leadership and driven to spotlight the incredible stories emerging from our public schools?
Apply to be a regular contributor to the AASA Schools of Thought blog!
By becoming a regular blogger, you’ll have the opportunity to share your insights, innovative ideas and effective strategies with a community of district leaders and educators. Your contributions will help shape the future of public education by inspiring actionable change and highlighting learner-centered, future-driven practices.
If you’re ready to make an impact and elevate the conversation around public education, apply to join our community of thought leaders!
Applications open annually in February and close on April 30.
Please note, due to limited availability and AASA's goal to ensure the team of regular bloggers cover a wide range of topics, not all applications will be accepted.
Who Should Apply?
AASA is seeking educational leaders with subject matter expertise to share insights, ideas and effective practices.
Regular Bloggers must be current members of AASA. While any current AASA member is welcome to apply, priority will be given to sitting superintendents and other district and school leaders.
If you are not a member of AASA, you are welcome to submit a guest post. More information is available here.
What is Expected of Regular Bloggers?
Regular bloggers, if accepted, commit to providing a minimum of 6 topical blog posts, every other month, for one-year (July-June), according to a predetermined schedule.
Bloggers agree to AASA's Copyright and Permissions policies and confirm that their submissions are original, unpublished content.
Preparing Your Application
Those interested in becoming a regular AASA blogger must submit:
- A 100-200 word proposal outlining the topic you wish to address and specific areas you intend to cover
- Three (3) sample titles for posts (each title should be around 70 characters or less, including spaces) you intend to write if accepted as a regular blogger
- One (1) original, unpublished blog post (~500-800 words) showcasing your expertise on the topic
- A brief author bio (75 words or less)
- A headshot (at least 300 dpi in quality)
Writing Considerations & Guidelines
AASA is committed to highlighting the amazing work happening in public schools around the country every day.
We are looking for timely and topical pieces related to AASA’s mission and initiatives, innovative approaches to problems of practice in educational leadership, and hot topics affecting public education today.
Applications open in February.
Check back for details.