IALS Journal
Our peer-reviewed, open-access Journal is currently accepting applications for publication. Previous issues are still available to foster and encourage academic discourse on topics germane to laboratory and university-affiliated schools. Articles offer perspectives on educational trends and include topics such as the history and future of lab schools, innovations in curricula and programs, lab school administration, and teacher education. The journal includes articles grounded in evidence-based classroom practices, action research, and theoretically based quantitative and qualitative scholarship. Best practices, educational trends, and theoretical based quantitative and qualitative scholarship found within these pages are intended to extend beyond our respective geographical contexts.
IALS Research Special Edition: Honoring Children's Voices – Call for Papers
The IALS Research Committee is extending the call for manuscripts outlining research on the role lab schools can play in honoring and centering children's voices. We are looking for papers from a wide range of methodological and pedagogical perspectives that focus on questions related to:
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Including children in the research process
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Including children in decision-making and instructional practices within schools
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Conceptualizing and enacting Children's Rights within school contexts
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Understanding children's perspectives and experiences within school contexts
For papers specifically for the research special edition, we are asking for more formalized research studies. As this is an extension of our earlier call, we are requesting that those interested have already obtained IRB/Ethics approval and have either collected data or are currently in the process of collecting/analyzing data.
Completed manuscripts will be due to the committee by October 15, 2025.
Please email kbjacobs@pitt.edu a brief abstract if you are interested in having your paper considered for publication. Additionally, please don't hesitate to email us with any questions.
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Find articles published between 2011 and 2013 on the Journal's website at Rhode Island College's Digital Commons:
Other published lab school articles of interest:
Student and Teacher Attitudes Toward Giftedness in a Two Laboratory School Environment: A Case Conducting a Needs Assessment, Jennifer Riedl Cross, Tracy Cross, and Andrea D. Frazier
Tobacco Policies at Colleges and Universities Housing PreK - 12 Laboratory Schools: An Exploratory Study, Sarah Prudhomme and Tara L. Gallien
Journal Submissions
We invite our members to submit manuscripts to the editor, Dr. Roberto Olmeda, at roberto.olmeda1@upr.edu.
Submissions should include the author’s titles and affiliations, mailing addresses, and a 2-5 sentence author biography.
For consideration in the 2025 volume of the journal, please submit by May 15, 2025.
**Deadline extended. Please see above!**
For complete instructions please read the following: IALS Journal Submission Doc
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Publications Related to Lab Schools
Read publications below that are created by people from other relevant organizations outside of IALS. We hope you find them helpful and informative.
by Grade 5 Teacher, Kathleen Ginsberg, The Parents League Review
2013
by Siddhartha Mitter; overview of Wellness Program at the School of Columbia, TC Today
Fall/Winter 2012
Understanding Prejudice through Paper Plate Portraits (page 18), by Grade 2 Teacher, Vanessa D'Egidio
Fall 2012
IALS Archives
IALS archives are housed at the Utah State University. For information contact Clint Pumphrey, Documents Archivist at