Planning & Changing Special Issue

Call for Proposals

The local and global realities have shifted since the beginning of 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) began to have major impacts upon the world. The nature of this pandemic and its impact on education cannot be overstated. From altering plans to modalities, education has been at the core of many of these shifts. In order to understand and learn from these changes, Planning and Changing is launching a special guest edited issue.

This issue requests your submissions engaging the changes and planning necessary to attend to the pandemic at the intersection of education. We are interested in multiple modalities of research output (empirical, theoretical, reflective) or paradigm (qualitative, quantitative, and/or mixed methods) pieces that engage in education at all levels. Moreover, we are interested in global perspectives. We welcome papers that address this topic from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives that address this issue, such as global and local challenges and differences to response, outreach within and beyond the educational community, the impact of working from home on educators, the forces in decision making, and more.

Proposal Submission Guidelines

• Interested authors should submit a proposal summary of less than 500-words by Sunday, August 2, 2020.
• Once a proposal summary has been accepted, authors should submit their full manuscript and cover page.
• Due to the timeliness of this topic, the editors has implemented an abbreviated turnaround process. 
• Please send any questions you have about the special issue to guest editors Linsay Demartino and Gavin Weiser.    

Review of Proposals

The special issue guest editors will review submitted proposals and extend invitations to selected authors to submit full manuscripts for peer review. Acceptance of a proposal does not guarantee the publication. Final decisions will be made after the review of full papers through the journal’s submission system.

Review of Manuscripts

The review process for manuscripts will be organized through the journal’s standard review procedure. Papers will be reviewed by the blind referees. The guest editors will make the final decision based on the reviewers’ recommendations. Prior to the full paper submission, please refer to the instructions for the special issue submission on the journal website.

Manuscript Guidelines

• Manuscripts are judged by their contribution to the understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on education, leadership, and/or policy issues.
• Manuscripts must be previously unpublished, not under consideration elsewhere, and should be prepared according to the style recommendations in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th Ed.
• Manuscripts of 4000-6000 words (plus abstract) should not list the author(s) name(s) in the title, header, and/or footer. Do not substitute the word author for the author(s) name(s) in the manuscript text, citation, and/or reference.
• Manuscripts must be accompanied by a cover sheet with each author's current title, position, institutional affiliation, and complete mailing address, phone, fax, and/or e-mail address of each of the authors.
• Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to the Guest Editors at the Planning and Changing submission form.

Submit Manuscript

Timeline

Monday, July 13, 2020	Initial call for proposals
Sunday, August 2, 2020	Last day to submit 500-word paper proposals to editors
Sunday, August 23, 2020	*Notification of acceptance/rejection of proposals sent to authors
Sunday, September 27, 2020	Last day to submit manuscripts to editors
Sunday, October 25, 2020	Reviewer feedback due to editors and authors
Sunday, November 8, 2020	Revisions by authors due to reviewers and editors
Sunday, November 29, 2020	Reviewer feedback due to editors and authors
Sunday, December 13, 2020	Final edits by authors due to editors
Winter 2021	Publication released

*Acceptance of a proposal does not guarantee the publication. Final decisions will be made after the review of full papers through the journal submission system.

Guest Editors
S. Gavin Weiser Ze/Hir/Hirs Assistant Professor Educational Administration & Foundations Illinois State University	Linsay DeMartino, Ph.D. She/Her/Hers Assistant Professor Educational Administration & Foundations Illinois State University