ABSTRACT
In 2015, the radio programme This American Life ran a two-part series on desegregation in schooling in America. The programme included a discussion of the period from 1971-1988, in which a number of school districts had worked towards increasing integration of black, Latino and white students into the same schools, with the result that educational achievement gaps between these population groups closed considerably. Teachers have also been shown to make a difference specifically for students who live in poverty. The teachers were co-researchers on the project at most levels: data collection, data analysis and dissemination. The overall aim of the project for the academic team was focused on teacher professional learning in collaboration, and the professional learning involved for the teachers was partly learning about doing research on practice. The 'two' projects both, in different ways, represented the important notion of teachers adopting 'researchly dispositions'.
