LTEL-SIG brings together discipline specialists, educational theorists, curriculum developers, educational researchers, classroom experts, practitioners, policy-makers, and others concerned with teaching in Educational Administration.
The LTEL-SIG provides a forum for:
The Journal of Research on Leadership Education (JRLE), an electronic peer-reviewed journal, provides an international venue for scholarship and discourse on the teaching and learning of leadership across the many disciplines that inform the field of educational leadership. JRLE seeks to promote and disseminate rigorous scholarship on the teaching, learning, and assessing of leadership preparation and practice, the political and contextual issues that impact leadership education, and the links between leadership education and student learning. JRLE accepts empirical and conceptual articles and embraces both traditional and emergent research paradigms.
Greetings LTEL Members!
As a longtime member of the LTEL SIG, I
Erin
Dr. Erin Anderson
Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy StudiesMorgridge College of Education, University of Denver
Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership (LTEL) SIG
2025-2026 Executive Committee Roster
Position
Term Length
Name
Institution
Email Address
Chair
(Elected)
2025-2028
Erin Anderson
University of Denver
erin.anderson249@du.edu
Past Chair
Shelby Cosner
University of Georgia
shelby.cosner@uga.edu
Secretary
2025-2027
Frank Perrone
Indiana University
fperrone@iu.edu
Treasurer
2024-2026
Daniel Reyes-Guerra
Florida Atlantic University
dreyes@fau.edu leadership.fau.edu
Program Co-Chair (Appointed)
Tim Drake
North Carolina State University
tadrake@ncsu.edu timothyadrake.com
Program Co-Chair
(Appointed)
Jennifer Clayton
George Washington University
claytonj@gwu.edu
Member-At-Large
Kathleen Cunningham
University of South Carolina
KATIEMWC@mailbox.sc.edu
Kristen Huggins
Washington State University
k.huggins@wsu.edu
Meagan Richard
Old Dominion
msrichar@odu.edu
Newsletter Co-Editor
2021-2026
Nahed Abdelrahman
University of Southern Mississippi
nrahman@tamu.edu
Summer Penuel
summer.pannell@usm.edu
Graduate Student Representative
2025-2026
TBD
LTEL offers two awards:
The Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award is the result of merging the former Distinguished Research Award and former Outstanding Service Award, which were awarded biennially according to an even- or odd-numbered year cycle. The faculty award, which can be given annually, recognizes a significant contribution made by a professor to the broad field of educational leadership and administration preparation and development through moving forward practice, policy or research aligned with LTEL SIG’s purposes.
The Robert Kottkamp Outstanding Dissertation Award recognizes a recent doctoral graduate as well as her or his dissertation advisor for research, evaluation, or scholarship that aligns with the LTEL SIG goals, mission, and purpose research. The dissertation, successfully defended during the previous calendar year, may investigate educational leadership preparation and development programs, assess the impact of preparation on leadership practice, examine policy issues related to state or national leadership standards assessment and credentialing, or contribute through disciplined inquiry to the knowledge base about learning and teaching in educational leadership. The dissertation award also recognizes the contributions by former SIG Chair Robert Kottkamp (emeritus professor at Hofstra University) and co-founder of the UCEA/LTEL SIG Taskforce on Evaluating Leadership Preparation Programs.
If you are a doctoral student in the LTEL sig and you are interested in getting involved with some of our existing projects, please email our chair, Dr. Shelby Cosner, at sacosner@uic.edu
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LTEL Member Publications
Here is a listing of some of the recent publications from LTEL members.
Texas A&M University
Abdelrahman, N., Irby, B. j., Elfarargy, H., Lara-Alecio, R., & Tong, F. (in press). The American Journal of Educational Research.
Irby, B. J., Abdelrahman, N., & Lara-Alecio, R. (2023). A lesson from history: Hatshepsut’s leadership. Journal of Texas Women School Executives, 8(1), 78-82
Irby, B. J., Abdelrahman, N., Lara-Alecio, R., Tong, F., & Elfarargy, H. (2023). Pre-Service Principals in a Principal Preparation Program:Leadership Practices as a Response to COVID-19. Journal of School Leadership, 10526846231174148.
Devers, Kimberley, Ibrahim Duyar, and Karen Buchanan. (2024). Examining teacher attrition through the experiences of former teachers before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Education Sciences 14(2): 184. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14020184 Nazarian, M., & Duyar, I., & Alhosani, M. (2024). Diversity management as a new organizational paradigm: Leading with cultural intelligence (CQ), In Diversity management as a new organizational paradigm, in Cutting-edge innovations in teaching, leadership, technology, and assessment, (eds. Asma Abdallah, Ahmed Alkaabi, and Rashid Alriyami), IGI Publications. ISBN13: 9798369308806
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Duyar, I. & Aljanahi, M. (2023). Examining the influence of principal positive leadership and sense of humor on teachers’ wellbeing in UAE public schools . Leadership and Policy in Schools,
McQuillan, M. T., Lebovitz, B. & L. Harbin.L. (2024). The disruptive power of policy erasure: How state legislators and school boards fail to take up trans-affirming policies while leaning into anti-LGBTQ+ policies. Educational Policy. Online First.
McQuillan, M. T. & C. Mayo. (2023). School leaders and transphobia: Direct, facilitative, accommodative, and resistant forms of bias and bullying. Educational Administration Quarterly. Online First.
McQuillan, M. T., Gill, E. & X. Gong. (2023). LGBTQ+-inclusive professional development in elementary schools: Does it matter to schoolwide disciplinary rates? Journal of School Leadership. 33(4), 382-408.
McQuillan, M. T. (2023) Scaling gender and sexuality-related policies in K-12 schools. Educational Policy. 7(4), 910-952.
Virginia Snodgrass Rangel
Snodgrass Rangel, V., Butcher, K., & Farmer, M. (In Press). A Comparison of the Internship Experiences of Aspiring School Leaders in a Principal Residency and Traditional Principal Preparation Program in Texas. Journal of School Leadership. Snodgrass Rangel, V. & Butcher, K. (2023 Online). The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the leadership work of aspiring school leaders. Journal of Research on Leadership Education.
Peters-Hawkins, A., Snodgrass Rangel, V., & Anderson, A. (2023 Online). Disrupting the (hidden) curriculum: anti-racist approaches to student instruction and assignments. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership.
Cunningham, K., Snodgrass Rangel, V., & Lochmiller, C. (2023 Online). Developing educational leadership in mathematics and science. Journal of Research on Leadership Education,
Bonney, E. N., Capello, S. A., & Yurkofsky, M. M. (Eds). (2024). Improvement Science in the Field: Cases of Practitioners Leading Change in Schools. Rowman & Littlefield.
Bonney, E. N., Yurkofsky, M. M., & Capello, S. A. (2024). EdD Students’ Sensemaking of Improvement Science as a Tool for Change in Education. Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 0(0).
Capello, S. A., Bonney, E. N., & Yurkofsky, M. M. (2024). Dissertation in practice methodologies. In K. Everson, K. Torres, L. Hemmer, & S.Tamim (Eds.), The importance of the dissertation in practice (DiP): A resource guide for EdD students, their committee members and advisors, and departmental and university leaders involved with EdD programs. Myers Education Press.
Capello, S. A., Bonney, E. N., & Yurkofsky, M. M. (2023). The practitioner inquiry course sequence: Centering improvement science in the design of an EdD program. In C. Benedetti & A. Covarrubias (Eds.), Critical inquiry and applied research in Ed.D. programs: Moving beyond traditional methods. Myers Education Press.
Yurkofsky, M. M., Bonney, E. N., & Capello, S. A. (2023). "Integrating improvement science into leadership preparation programs: Enduring challenges and promising strategies." In E. Anderson & S. D. Hayes (Eds.), Continuous improvement: A leadership process for school improvement. Information Age Publishing.