2009–2012: Building and shepherding a research journal: The influence of policy, classroom practice, and other research

The JRME office moved eastward when the editorship changed from Brigham Young University to The Pennsylvania State University for our editorship from 2009 to 2012. As mentioned in my first editorial (Heid, 2009a), it takes the entire community to continue the production of a top-tier journal, and that necessity guided our thinking from the start. At Penn State, two senior researchers, Glendon Blume and Rose Mary Zbiek,¹ agreed to take on the positions of Associate Editors, and we worked together to maintain the integrity and quality of what was (and is) arguably one of the most highly regarded mathematics education research journals (Nivens & Otten, 2017; Toerner & Arzarello, 2012; Williams & Leatham, 2017). As we worked on the journal, we initiated practices and structures designed to maintain and solidify JRME’s leading role among top-tier journals.