In the next phase of the project, each person kept a journal of their classroom work for four weeks. Not all of the researchers could make time to write, so some researchers spoke to one another on the phone, and then transcribed their conversations. In this phase, the following common themes emerged:

• the job (philosophy, style and strategies)
• learning / the classroom environment (collaborative or facilitative approach to instruction)
• students (power, politics, other)

The final phase of data collection will be interviewing 18 other instructors. By November of 2003, the group will move onto writing up their findings.

So far, major issues that have arisen include:

• if we find out what "effective" means, would we train teachers to do these things?
• does useful research really tell us what to do?
• one of the values of this work is that it has allowed us the opportunity to take conversations to another level of analysis
• there is not enough time: we are all "working off the side of our desks"
• switching from teaching to the work of analysis is huge: it feels as though we need more time to get into that mental space
• we are discovering that there are many things we don't agree about, which we assumed we understood in the same way. We need to find a way for the final document to include a range of agreements and disagreements.