CALL FOR PAPERS


Jewish Educational Leadership invites proposals for its upcoming spring 2025 issue focusing on

Impactful Educational Programming and Practice
 
 

Every school has its rites and rituals, its ebb and flow of the year. Some of that evolved spontaneously, almost by accident, while other elements were designed to highlight something, to promote a goal or a value, to generate a spirit that becomes definitional for the school. In this issue of the journal, we are looking to understand and spotlight extraordinary programs or practices that leave lasting impressions on students, inspire and elevate the school community, or are considered transformational experiences within the school. These can include programmatic elements and practices that are tangibly present throughout the day every day of the year or major programming for which there is considerable buildup and whose effects reverberate on the school long before and after the programs themselves are over. They can be “baked-in” to the regular academic program, suffused throughout the school as part of its “hidden curriculum,” or part of what a school might call its non-academic, co-curricular, or extra-curricular program. The kinds of impact that these programs have could be described as elevating, spiritually uplifting, contributing to the students’ sense of joy in being Jewish, instilling Jewish pride, or building identification with the school and its values. 

We expect that articles will:

  1. Describe the program (or practice) and its intended goals
  2. Clarify the roles played by students, faculty, parents, extended members of the school’s community, etc.
  3. Explain how the program (or practice) is embedded in the school culture
  4. Identify the lasting impact the program (or practice) has, possibly including student and parent voices
  5. Explore why the program (or practice) is so successful
  6. Describe how the program (or practice) is an outgrowth of or has become definitional to the school’s overall goals and ethos

Additionally, we welcome articles that will provide video clips that demonstrate some of the elements or impact of the programming.

Proposals should be 100-200 words and briefly share the focus of the proposed article and the key points the article will present. Please send proposals or queries to the Editor-in-Chief by December 22nd, 2024.

Full articles will be 1000-2000 words in length, with no footnotes or academic references.