Call for Applications Editor of Social Studies and the Young Learner 

The five-year term of the current Editor of Social Studies and the Young Learner, is ending in the summer of 2021. The Editor is a volunteer who is willing to assume a significant leadership position among elementary educators. The Editor plans issues, solicits articles, organizes the manuscript review process, and cooperates with NCSS publications staff to produce a high-quality journal. The duration of this unpaid, professional service position is five years. The new Editor would join the notable professionals who have served as SSYL Editors:

• Huber M. Walsh, University of Missouri-St.
• Louis Gloria T. Alter, Beloit College
• Sherry L. Field, University of Texas-Austin
• Linda Bennett, University of Missouri-Columbia
• Andrea Libresco, Hofstra University, with Jeannette Balantic, Garden City Public Schools (NY)
• Scott Waring, University of Central Florida

NCSS invites applications from NCSS members interested in this vital leadership role for elementary teachers. Candidates from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply. The responsibilities of the position include:

• Identifying ways in which the journal can meet the professional needs of classroom teachers as they educate their students in social studies subjects;
• Organizing theme issues, soliciting manuscripts and administering the review of solicited and unsolicited manuscripts;
• Maintaining communications with authors and reviewers; and
• Coordinating with NCSS editorial staff to produce an interesting, readable, and lively journal that appears on schedule.

If you are interested in the position, please submit a letter, a resume, and a statement describing your view of the main current professional needs of elementary teachers of social studies and how you, as Editor of the journal, would meet these needs. Please also include one or two samples of your most teacher-friendly and reader-friendly writing.

Please indicate to what extent you would have institutional support. Send these to Steve Lapham, Senior Editor, SSYL, via e-mail at slapham@ncss.org. Deadline, May 31, 2020. Please place “SSYL Editor Position” on the subject line.