Issues relating to education innovation, leadership, and change. My work aims to help practitioners and policymakers make informed decisions about systematic change that acknowledge local strengths and global possibilities.

• Idaho Building Capacity (IBC), Regions 1 and 2
• ROC-ON

• Rewilding as Improvisational Rural Education Leadership Spring 2020-ongoing.
• R&D Partnership for Rural Education Leadership Capacity Building, July 2019-ongoing.
• Rural Meets Digitization: Exploring What's Modern and What's Best, March 2019-ongoing.
• Support, Opportunity, Achievement, Revitalization (SOAR)

• Wargo, E. S., & Simmons, J. (2021). Technology storylines: A narrative analysis of the rural education research. The Rural Educator, 42(2), 35-50. https://doi.org/10.35608/ruraled.v42i2.1240
• Wargo, E., Budge, K., Carr-chellman, D., & Canfield-Davis, K. (2021).  Leadership for Rural School District Improvement: The Case of One Statewide Research Practice Partnership. Journal of Research in Rural Education. https://doi.org/10.26209/jrre3701
• Wargo, E., Carr-chellman, D., Budge, K., & Canfield-Davis, K. (2020). On the digital frontier: Stakeholders in rural areas take on
  educational technology and schooling. Journal of Research on Technology in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2020.1760753
• Wargo, E. (2020). Intertwined higher education places and spaces. Journal for the Study of Postsecondary and Tertiary Education, 5, 79-84. https://doi.org/10.28945/4535
• Budge, K., Wargo, E., Carr-Chellman, D., & Canfield-Davis, K. (2019). When "career and college ready" means only (or mostly) "college ready": Perspectives from stakeholders in six rural and small communities. Leadership and Policy in Schools. https://doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2019.1696371