Teacher Leaders of Collaborative Action Research: Challenges and Rewards

The purpose of this study was to describe four successful collaborative action research (CAR) projects through the lens of teacher leaders who facilitated the school teams that conducted the CAR. For each CAR project described, the paper will report on the various phases of the CAR, the challenges of implementation as well as how the challenges were addressed by the teacher leaders, and results of the action research. Additionally, the study identifies several common characteristics of the widely varied CAR projects.