Mel's+Choice+Reading

Hi Mel, I just finished reading your //Teachers as Architects of Transformation// article. Wow! Thank you so much for choosing this. I think it is such a wonderful example of setting up a case study, and it also offers how practitioner research can become an "agent of change" - I am deeply interested in reflective practice anyway, so reading this was a wonderful experience for me. Thank you. I will refer to this article often when I write about reflective practice and practitioner inquiry in my future practice. I think there's some great stuff here to discuss. Kathy

Hi Mel, I also just finished reading your article, and I have to echo Kathy's Wow! So well written and interesting. It resonated with my own experience with teacher collaboration. Of particular interest was Vetter's recommendation that transcripts of group discussions might be analyzed. Perhaps problematic because of the dynamic of knowing that one is being recorded may change the nature of the input, but I look back on some meetings that included one or two particular "can't do" people and think how instructive it might be to show patterns of resistance, power struggles, etc... I am looking forward to hearing both your and Kathy's reactions to the article and your personal connections. Again, great choice!