Coding for NARST/NOVA

Teacher interactions and educational change: Nurturing the integration of theory and practice through peer-supported action research
“How do peer-interactions nurture teachers’ integration of research and practice?”
First level of coding – for when people talk about the PROCESS of each learning experience
P. interactive course maps
P. blogging
P. peer-to-peer interviewing
P. action research process
P. stimulated recall video debrief
P. final [...]

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“Filler Work”

If you haven’t hit your 10 hours (or whatever your commitment is), and you want to work on something the project really needs, here are some ideas:
* interview a GRS graduate and email Chris Penders a description of the innovative practices they have been playing with, where they are teaching, how others could engage with [...]

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research habit I want us to have

“I…followed a golden rule that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought  came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a ememorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape my memory than [...]

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February 13 Agenda

Here is a working agenda for next week. Don’t forget that we were going to

post research questions we might have for the Freedom school and
add to Liz’s list regarding the 474 data that we have and might want to look at
review the Wilson Grant description and be ready to talk about how stars would fit [...]

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474 data…

Interactive course maps
Weekly blog posts (already in Atlas TI)
Peer-to-peer interviews (arranged by topic)
Action research
          final papers
          pics of final posters
          final focus group transcripts
          video from final presentations
          Michael’s informal interviews from final day
Simulated-recall of reform-based lesson
         plus and arrows sheets from participants
         interview transcripts from observations
Interested in looking at the process, series of experiences [...]

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Lunch Hour – Why we rock

Why we rock, let me count the ways…
The way in which we are genuinely happy to see one another.
The way we take pride in one another’s accomplishments.
The way we make food a part of almost every meeting.
The way we each contribute something unique.
The way – okay, I’ll stop now and get down to the stuff.
Seriously [...]

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agenda from Kankana

Agenda for our meeting today
•    Highs and lows – 10 mins
•    Discussion of research questions to study the 474 participants: starting point would be Dr Luehmann’s blog post regarding the matter – 40 mins
•    Brainstorming on Freedom School research, preparing for RSRB – again we can begin from the blog posts of Dr. Luehmann, Jeremiah [...]

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Some 474 questions

The paper we are going to write next will serve two complementary purposes:
1.  Preparation for the panel / interactive poster at NARST that is part of a session called “Engaging with Teachers around Science Education Research.” – I will bring a document that describes what everyone promised to speak about to our meeting tomorrow.
2.  A [...]

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Freedom School Research Project

I think it would good to start this conversation here, but after tomorrow, I think a very good “next step” would be to just spend some time there… and talk with people… making notes about things we see and hear.  Then, after we get a few initial ideas, I think it would be great to [...]

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Warner Lunch Hour on Research Groups – February 11th

So, some ideas of what to present/talk about on Wednesday:

We collaborate on work as needed.
We engage in project work and research work in balance to move our work forward and have learned much from both types of work.
Meetings are weekly, have an agenda, and are facilitated in a rotating fashion. All members have a voice [...]

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