Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy is an international, refereed, online journal, which is dedicated to enriching the leadership knowledge base and education policy and to promoting exploration and analysis of policy alternatives. The 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 and policy. The journal 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. It accepts empirical and conceptual articles and embraces both traditional and emergent research paradigms.