From Research to Practice: Recontextualizing the CLASS Program across Boundaries

Abstract

As former middle and high school English teachers, secondary English teacher educators, and educational researchers, the authors were challenged to negotiate the worlds of their research center and the various schools where they worked with teachers. They used the CLASS system to mediate meetings between researchers and teachers participating in the CELA Partnership for Literacy study and learned that research tools can become “boundary objects” that facilitate movement between discourses.