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Submission Guidelines

JTLPs: The Journal of Transformative Leadership and Policy Studies
A Peer-Reviewed Journal Sponsored by the Doctorate in Educational Leadership Program at California State University, Sacramento

About the Journal

The Journal of Transformative Leadership and Policy Studies (JTLPs) is a peer – reviewed Journal Sponsored by the Educational Doctorate Program at California State University, Sacramento. JTLPs accepts articles that focus on current research promoting and documenting work in P-16 public education including: schools, community colleges, and higher education.

Submission Themes

In line with the program description for the Independent Doctorate, JTLPs encourages submissions that effectively seek to answer the following three themes:

  1. Transformational Leadership: How do transformative leaders understand, implement, and evaluate strategic equitable leadership practices based on various theories, models, and approaches for achieving organizational transformation, especially in educational settings?

  2. Critical Policy Analysis and Action: How do transformative leaders engage in critical analyses of policy at the local, state, national, and international levels?

  3. Informed Decision Making: Documenting the ability to make effective decisions vital to successful performance of visionary transformational leaders is an important theme of this journal.

Specifically we seek examples of scholarship related to showcasing educational environments that promote: learning, equity, and achievement for all students; how educators manage the complexities of educational organizations; affect school change processes; and shape the educational policies that bear on the practice of education in the public setting.

This is an online academic journal. We expect that all submitting authors agree to serve as a reviewer of no more than two articles. Jurors name will appear in each edition.

Formatting

Articles will be accepted in the following format:

  • APA style

  • Electronic submission only; sorry no paper copies will be juried

Submitting Your Work

Send your submission to:

Carlos Nevarez, Editor
The Journal of Transformative Leadership and Policy Studies
edd@csus.edu