Journal of Scholarship & Practice Articles

2018 Spring Journal of Scholarship and Practice

This article investigates school system leaders’ influence and control over local teacher supervision and evaluation systems (TSES) guided by the United States’ (U.S.) Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

Many school educators struggle to reconcile the onslaught of mandatory and competing, top-down policies.

In this article, we present a framework, called Flipping the Script, that we developed while researching how students, teachers, and families were portrayed on school websites.

Efforts to wrest oversight of public education to control what is taught and by whom has been an ongoing theme in the history of American education.

This paper comments on the development of Future Ready Schools—New Jersey a state-sponsored, voluntary, school-level program and its shift to digital schools.

The purpose of this study is to analyze Illinois school board members’ perspectives on SEL, educational equity, and responses to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

This study involving 233 participants from ten states sought to identify the types of educational journals practicing superintendents read.

The AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice has striven to combine the voices of practitioners, some of whom are budding researchers, often at the end stage of their doctoral studies, with the research of seasoned institutional scholars who have established research relationships with school districts across the country.

The title conveys the basic premise, i.e., that teachers and families are or can be “natural allies.”