ABSTRACT
In this concluding chapter we reflect about what Japanese lesson study can teach us here in the United States. We begin, however, by focusing on two related issues that need to be addressed first. First, we discuss why Japanese teachers engage in lesson study—why do they see it as a powerful and worthwhile activity? Second, we try to disentangle what is powerful about lesson study per se from what Japanese teachers do to make lesson study the rich activity that we have described in previous chapters,
