Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher through a Culture of Inquiry is essentially a description of one school's initiatives to use collaborative communities and action research to empower teacher research and a culture of collective inquiry. It is written by teachers primarily for teachers and teacher educators. Because administrative support is foundational to the process, school and district administrators and staff developers will also be interested in reading about how this school's principal and assistant principal set the stage for developing their community of learners. What sets this text apart are the first-person accounts of teachers' experiences with action research as examples of profound possibilities for professional growth.

Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher through a Culture of Inquiry is essentially a description of one school's initiatives to use collaborative communities and action research to empower teacher research and a culture of collective inquiry. It is written by teachers primarily for teachers and teacher educators. Of course, none of the initiatives described in the text would be possible without the visionary leadership of school and district administrators. Because administrative support is foundational to the process, school and district administrators and staff developers will also be interested in reading about how this school's principal and assistant principal set the stage for developing their community of learners. There are many sound action research texts on the market. What sets this text apart are the first-person accounts of teachers' experiences with action research as examples of profound possibilities for professional growth. As such, this book, written by teachers for other teachers and then contextualized by the Editors so that the relevance is clear to a broader audience, fills an important niche in the literature.

Part 1 Acknowledgements
Part 2 Foreword
Part 3 Section One: Exploring the Key Concepts
Chapter 4 Promoting Teachers as Thoughtful, Proactive and Effective Decision Makers!
Chapter 5 Professional Learning Communities: Setting the Stage for Collaboration
Chapter 6 Demystifying Action Research: A Practical Explanation for Teacher Researchers
Part 7 Section Two: Creating a Culture of Inquiry
Chapter 8 The Perspectives of a School Administration
Part 9 Section Three: Practitioner Research Chapters
Chapter 10 Coming Full Circle: Describing a Year of Action Research
Chapter 11 Service Learning and Action Research: Developing a Course that Sparked the Flame of Citizenship
Chapter 12 Action Research? You've Got to be Kidding Me
Chapter 13 Write-On: Using Research Data to Improve Student Achievement
Chapter 14 Action Research: Motivating Middle School Students
Chapter 15 A Splash of Color with a Dash of Discovery Makes One Great Shade
Part 16 Section Four: Affirming the Voice of the Teacher Researcher
Chapter 17 Reflecting Back on a year of Growth: The Results of Thoughtful, Proactive and Effective Teacher Research
Part 18 About the Editors
Part 19 About the Contributors