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We are so pleased to be able to offer you the 2018 compilation of Voices of Practitioners articles. This volume marks VOP鈥檚 14th year as an online journal. We thank the 强奸视频 for the Education of Young Children for its continued support, especially for including a teacher research article from Voices of Practitioners in each print issue of Young Children, 强奸视频鈥檚 flagship journal.
This collection includes expanded versions of the print articles鈥攕ometime nearly double in length鈥攁s well as a number of unique articles: Jennifer Kampmann鈥檚 self-study as a teacher educator, Andrew J. Stremmel鈥檚 timely background article on finding a question for beginning teacher research, and Parallel Voices articles by Sundai Riggins and Martha Melgoza to accompany the teacher research articles by Talene Artinian and Isauro M. Escamilla and his colleagues. We also have a Parallel Voices article by Dawn Garbett that is a commentary on all the teacher articles that were printed in Young Children in 2018.
Another development in the life of Voices of Practitioners is the establishment of the journal as an focused on teacher research. Interest forums are communities within the organization that enjoy special privileges and opportunities, including an online meeting space through 强奸视频鈥檚 online platform , and 强奸视频-sponsored business meetings at each annual conference. Please consider joining our interest forum for access to materials on teacher research and a chance to meet with Voices editors, authors, and other insiders at the 强奸视频 Annual Conference. Join and become an insider!
In other news, we have plans to consolidate and republish the VOP archives, which go back to 2004. We hope to provide all of the materials鈥攆rom the start of the journal to the present鈥攐nline, with simple keyword searches and immediate downloads. Currently, some of these materials are available through our interest group website.
We hope you enjoy the 2018 volume and can make use of it in your teaching, professional development, or work in teacher preparation. Teacher research is a vehicle for professionalism, for leadership in the field for and by teachers, and for social justice by being a pathway to providing high-quality care and education for young children. Teacher research asks hard questions and provides deeply textured, site-based evidence so that we can understand what works best in our practices and where and how we need to improve. I hope you will join us in this important work鈥攁nd we would love to hear from you, as well.
鈥擝arbara Henderson
Barbara Henderson, PhD, is the director of the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership at San Francisco State University and a professor of elementary education with an early childhood specialization. Her research interests include practitioner/teacher research, self-study research, participatory research, and narrative inquiry. Barbara is one of the founding editors of Voices of Practitioners, 强奸视频鈥檚 journal of teacher research, established in 2004.听