The School Science and Mathematics Journal is transitioning to a new editorial team. Dr. Carla Johnson is retiring as Editor of School Science and Mathematics after 10 years of service. We are grateful for her service and dedication to SSM and SSMA for the past decade. As the new co‐editorial team, we would like to take a moment to introduce ourselves and share our vision for School Science and Mathematics. As members of the School Science and Mathematics Association (SSMA), we are thrilled and appreciative for the opportunity to be co‐editors for a well‐respected journal that serves the science and mathematics community. We are both currently Associate Professors at the University of South Carolina, where the SSM editorial office will be housed. Dr. Christie Martin has a background in mathematics, and writing across content areas, while Dr. Bridget Miller's background is in science and engineering education, as well as special education. With expertise in both science and mathematics, we will continue to pursue a balance of mathematics and science publications, as well as build upon science and mathematics instruction with integrated STEM and STEAM research. We seek to maintain and enhance the high‐quality research articles published by the journal of School Science and Mathematics. We are also grateful for the support of SSMA. The SSMA mission to strive to “be an inclusive professional community bringing together researchers and teachers to promote research, scholarship, and practice to improve school science and mathematics and to advance the integration of school science and mathematics” aligns with our own beliefs and we want to be part of this work.

As we move forward, we are joined with a group of Associate Editors that provide a wealth of expertise to the journal. We hope they will serve for the duration of our 5‐year term. We have several newly recruited Associate Editors and almost half of the current Associate Editors are remaining part of the team. Dr. Megan Wuebker is the current Editorial assistant and she has also decided to continue in this role.

Transition

We are working with Dr. Johnson during the month of January to transition the editorship of the journal. Dr. Johnson prepared the January publication and the next couple of months have several manuscripts slated for publication. Our new team started the first week of January and have taken over the submissions currently in the system and assigning Associate Editors to new submissions. Dr. Shelly Harkness, former co‐editor, agreed to provide mentorship through the transition along with Past President of SSMA and newly recruited Associate Editor Dr. Suzanne Nesmith. We are incredibly grateful to Dr. Carla Johnson for her dedication to this transition, the Associate Editors that are remaining on our team, and Dr. Megan Wuebker our Editorial assistant bringing invaluable expertise.

Our vision

We seek to maintain and enhance the high‐quality research articles published by the journal of School Science and Mathematics. We want to maintain the journal's quality and standing in the research community. We want to expand the reach of the journal both nationally and internationally, increase diversity within the editorial team, collaborate with Wiley publishers to establish an impact factor, and work to improve timelines for authors. We aim to keep up to date with current trends and issues, target current needs of the field, and engage in in‐depth special issues which will meet the needs of both practitioners and researchers. We want to continue to promote the Research to Practice Companion articles to support the connections between empirical research and the classroom.

The journal is nothing without its members, authors, and reviewers. As we move forward into the new year, we aim to expand our reach both nationally and internationally by continuing to expand our membership, reviewer pool, authors, and associate editorial team. As noted, several Associate Editors are continuing, in addition we have recruited over 20 new associate editors. The decision to expand the editorial team was designed to begin addressing our goals. We sought to recruit a diverse group of Associate Editors to bring a larger scope of expertise, international presence, and create a community of researchers that are invested in promoting the organization and journal. In addition, an expanded group of Associate Editors will improve the timeline for authors. We want to ensure researchers seek out School Science and Mathematics for publication and receive timely, meaningful feedback from our team.

This past year has been unprecedented in how educators engage in teaching and learning, and how scholars conduct research in Science, Mathematics, and STEM education. There are, however, several upward trends for School Science and Mathematics that we want to highlight. International submissions (from outside North America) in 2020 remained strong at 12.5% of overall submissions—international submissions made up 12.4% of submissions in 2019 (Wiley, 2021). In addition, SSM’s article output (published articles) increased by 1.8% in 2020 compared to the previous year (Wiley, 2021). As we progress through 2021, we look to continue these upward trends, as well as work to increase SSM submissions and readership. To maintain our high quality of authors, readers, and reviewers, we seek to decrease the turnaround time from initial submission to editorial decisions and publication. We believe in the mission of the School Science and Mathematics Association, and the role of SSM members in reaching this mission. As members of SSM, you are vital to sustaining and building our network of teachers, researchers, scientists, and mathematicians. We value the insights of members and stakeholders in moving the journal forward, and continuing to advance the field of science, mathematics, and STEM education. Not only does the work published in SSM disseminate knowledge across the field, but it has the potential to influence policy at the local, state, and national level, and most importantly, the students.

We seek to be open and transparent with decisions made for the journal. We encourage feedback, suggestions, and requests that we will carefully consider. Over the next 5 years we will make decisions constantly reflecting on the mission of SSMA and the feedback from members. We look forward to being your editorial team. We hope that you will join us in our mission to extend awareness about the research and work done by SSM and SSMA.

《学校科学与数学杂志》正在过渡到新的编辑团队。服务10年后，卡拉·约翰逊（Carla Johnson）博士退休，担任学校科学和数学编辑。我们感谢她在过去十年中对SSM和SSMA的服务和奉献。作为新的男女合校团队，我们想花一点时间自我介绍，并分享我们对学校科学和数学的愿景。作为学校科学与数学协会的成员（SSMA），我们很高兴能有机会成为一本为科学和数学界服务的备受尊敬的期刊的共同编辑。我们目前都是南卡罗来纳大学的副教授，将在该大学设SSM编辑部。克里斯蒂·马丁（Christie Martin）博士具有数学背景，并跨多个领域写作，而布里奇特·米勒（Bridget Miller）博士则具有科学和工程学教育以及特殊教育。凭借在科学和数学方面的专业知识，我们将继续追求数学和科学出版物之间的平衡，并在结合科学，数学指导和STEM和STEAM研究的基础上继续发展。我们力求维护和增强由《学校科学与数学》杂志发表的高质量研究文章。我们也感谢SSMA的支持。SSMA的使命是“成为一个包容性的专业社区，将研究人员和教师聚集在一起，以促进研究，奖学金和实践，以改善学校科学和数学并促进学校科学与数学的融合”符合我们自己的信念，我们希望成为这项工作的一部分。

在前进的过程中，我们加入了一组副编辑，他们为该期刊提供了丰富的专业知识。我们希望他们能在我们的5年任期内任职。我们有几位新招聘的副编辑，目前将近一半的副编辑仍在团队中。梅根·伍布克（Megan Wuebker）博士是现任编辑助理，她还决定继续担任这一职务。

过渡

我们将在一月份与Johnson Johnson博士合作，以过渡该期刊的编辑。约翰逊博士准备了1月份的出版物，并在接下来的几个月中准备出版几本手稿。我们的新团队从1月的第一周开始，已经接管了系统中当前的提交，并为新提交分配了副编辑。前共同编辑谢利·哈克尼斯（Shelly Harkness）博士同意与SSMA的前任主席以及新聘的副编辑苏珊·内史密斯（Suzanne Nesmith）一起在过渡期间提供指导。我们非常感谢Carla Johnson博士对这一转变的奉献精神，我们团队中剩余的副编辑以及我们的编辑助理Megan Wuebker博士带来了宝贵的专业知识。

我们的愿景

我们力求维护和增强由《学校科学与数学》杂志发表的高质量研究文章。我们希望保持期刊的质量和在研究界的地位。我们希望在国内和国际上扩大期刊的覆盖面，在编辑团队中增加多样性，与Wiley出版商合作以建立影响因子，并努力改善作者的时间表。我们的目标是与时俱进，关注当前领域的需求，并深入研究满足专业人士和研究人员需求的特殊问题。我们希望继续推广“研究实践同伴”文章，以支持实证研究与课堂之间的联系。

没有它的成员，作者和审稿人，该期刊将一无是处。在迈入新的一年的过程中，我们的目标是通过继续扩大我们的会员，审稿人，作者和副编辑团队来扩大我们在国内和国际上的影响力。如前所述，几位副编辑仍在继续，此外，我们还招聘了20多位新的副编辑。扩大编辑团队的决定旨在开始实现我们的目标。我们试图招募各种各样的副编辑，以带来更大范围的专业知识，国际影响力，并创建一个研究人员社区，专门投入资金来促进该组织和期刊的发展。此外，扩大的副编辑组将改善作者的时间表。我们要确保研究人员寻找到进行学校科学和数学出版，并从我们的团队获得及时，有意义的反馈。

在过去的一年中，教育工作者如何从事教学和学者如何进行科学，数学和STEM教育方面的研究是史无前例的。但是，我们要强调的是学校科学和数学的几种上升趋势。2020年（来自北美以外地区）的国际提交量仍占总体提交量的12.5％，而国际提交量占2019年提交量的12.4％（Wiley，  2021年）。此外，SSM的文章产量（已发表文章）在2020年比上一年增长了1.8％（Wiley，  2021年））。随着我们在2021年之前取得进展，我们希望继续保持这些上升趋势，并努力增加SSM提交和读者人数。为了保持作者，读者和审阅者的高质量，我们力求减少从初次提交到编辑决定和出版的时间。我们相信学校科学与数学协会的使命，以及SSM成员在完成这项任务中的作用。作为SSM的成员，您对于维持和建立我们的教师，研究人员，科学家和数学家的网络至关重要。我们重视成员和利益相关者在推动期刊向前发展，并继续推动科学，数学和STEM教育领域方面的见识。SSM发表的著作不仅在整个领域传播知识，而且还具有影响地方，州和国家（尤其是学生）政策的潜力。

我们力求对期刊做出决策时保持开放和透明。我们鼓励我们认真考虑的反馈，建议和要求。在接下来的5年中，我们将不断根据SSMA的使命和成员的反馈做出决策。我们期待着成为您的编辑团队。我们希望您能加入我们的使命，以增强对SSM和SSMA所做研究和工作的认识。