Promoting teachers as thoughtful, proactive, and effective decision makers! / Roger Brindley and Christine Crocco -- Professional learning communities : setting the stage for collaboration / Christine Crocco -- Demystifying action research : a practical explanation for teacher researchers / Roger Brindley -- The perspectives of a school administration / Chris Christoff and Matt Gruhl -- Coming full circle : describing a year of action research / Leslie Frick -- Service learning and action research : developing a course that sparked the flame of citizenship / Cindy Tehan and Janet Tolson -- Action research? You've got to be kidding me / Danielle Lawrence -- Write-on : using research data to improve student achievement / Karen Zantop -- Action research : motivating middle school students / Karen Wood -- A splash of color with a dash of discovery makes one great shade / Lisa Fisher -- Reflecting back on a year of growth : the results of thoughtful, proactive, and effective teacher research / Christine Crocco and Roger Brindley