ABSTRACT

In a casual conversation during a teacher research meeting in Chicago, Tom Daniels commented on how teacher research meetings and especially the sustained opportunity to talk to other teachers helped him and his peers learn and grow:

We can never discount the value of having the time for teachers to sit around a table and talk to each other about what they do, how it's affecting them, and how they feel. Teachers notoriously never get the time to do that and I think that's really crucial to helping them understand what they do. (M-CLASS Chicago local meeting)1