Surviving and Thriving with Teacher Action Research

Content: Callie Sprague: Fierce Wonderings: Finding Your Research Passion ? Linnea Rademaker/Catherine Henry/Laurel Gustafson: Starting with a Problem: Using Action Research to Respond to Challenges in the Classroom ? Margit Boyesen: Do I Really Want iPads? How Critical Questions About a School Reform Can Drive Action Research ? JoHanna Simko: Building on Success: Recalling the Past to Inspire Action Research in a New Context ? Qudsia Kalsoom: My Journey toward a Workable Action Research Question ? Jocelyn Peck: Moving from «Noticings» to Research Questions ? Ashley Vasquez: Goals, Questions, and Anxiety: Initiating the Research Process ? Juli Ruff: Taming the Beast: Researching and Writing a Literature Review ? Bryan Meyer: Emergent Research: Building the Plane While Flying It ? Bernice Alota: Making Time for Action Research ? Sarah Strong: Data Collection: How My Research Methods Became My Greatest Assessment Tools ? Cady Staff: The Stories at the Heart of Our Research ? Stephen F. Hamilton: What Makes Action Research Good Research? ? Melissa Han: Learning to Listen ? Jessica De Young Kander: Letting Students See behind the Curtain: Transparency, Teacher as Learner, and the IRB ? Tony Spitzberg: It's Not about the Technique: Learning That Teaching Is More Heart Than Strategy ? Makeba Jones: Youth-Led Action Research: A Lesson in Letting Go of Control ? Stacey Williams: Power Sharing or Power Hoarding? Reflections on My Position Within the Research ? Sam Gladwell: Embracing Disequilibrium ? Laura McNaughton: Letting Go: Heeding My Own Advice and Letting Go of Expectations ? Melissa King: Paradigm Shifts and Possibilities: My Exodus from the Land of the Linear ? Janet Ilko: «Can't We Just Do a Worksheet?»: Persevering through Challenges When Implementing Action Research ? Linnea Rademaker/Catherine Henry/Laurel Gustafson: Hidden Gems: Finding Unanticipated Outcomes Through Collaborative Action Research ? Daisy Sharrock: Tackling the Ambiguities of Action Research: Advice for the Goal-Oriented Practitioner on How to Stay Sane. ? Jennifer Harris Edstrom: Raise Your Voice: Writing for Change, Writing to Be Heard ? Alyssa Robledo-Graham: Challenging Assumptions: A Student Teacher's Action Research Prompts Veterans to Rethink Their Beliefs About K-12 Student Potential - Reflections from a Social Justice Educator ? Veronica Garcia: Empowering Students as Change Agents - Robert Meza-Ehlert: Growing Our Practice: AR in a Professional Learning Community ? Frank Cornelissen: Getting Your Knowledge «Out There»: Finding Your Knowledge Ambassadors, or How They Find You ? Noriyuki Inoue: Confessions of an Educational Researcher: Overcoming Cognitive Dissonance about Action Research.