From the Editor:Teaching and Learning is Five Years Old. Moving Forward:

Abstract

This is my last editorship of Teaching and Learning. In my capacity as the first Associate Dean of the Faculty of Education at Brock University, Ontario, Canada, I envisioned and proposed the development of a professional development newsletter/ journal/magazine that would become one of the voices of the Brock-Golden Horseshoe Educational Consortium. This advisory group is a unique coming together of eleven area school boards and a Faculty of Education with a defined purpose to further understanding and increase communication between education partners in the region known to many as the Greater Niagara Golden Horseshoe. It was my intention then that the interviews, articles, reviews and resources and local school board content published in each issue reflect a thematic, purpose with featured, invited, adjudicated, re-edited or reprinted professional development articles. More important it would be reader friendly, professionally informative and a publication that readers would want to collect, refer to and pass on. I believe that over the years the journal has evolved and delivered on its promise and has established a forum for new writers and previously published experts across a broad range of themes featured in the 11 issues published since Spring 2002. Our first printing, Internship and Mentorship was between 300 and 500 copies. Since then we graduated to a high of almost twelve thousand printed copies of the issue on Bullying (sold out twice) and have regularly printed and distributed between 7000 - 8500, (32-36 pages ) copies of each issue such as Storytelling, Boys and Literacy, Stress in Schools, Leadership, Assessment and other titles. Authors and readers including a small but dedicated group of subscribers comprise not only a local following but a national and international base of contributors, readers and believers. This, my final issue as editor, brings together an interesting blend of articles that deal with action research as a viable and robust research method for dealing with issues that arise in education and social care settings.