Introduction: Thinking, Writing and Talking about Staff and Educational Development -- 1. Yes, But Can You Prove It? / Serge Piccinin -- 2. Professional Development in Retreat / Barbara Grant -- 3. Mapping the Way / Lindy McAllister -- 4. Are Teachers Really Researchers? / Pip Bruce-Ferguson -- 5. And the Right Answer Is ... / Jackie Lublin -- 6. The Proof of the Pudding ... / Glenda Crosling -- 7. Making a Difference / Joy Higgs -- 8. Walking a Tightrope / Carmel McNaught -- 9. By Accident Or ...? / David Murphy -- 10. I Will Survive / Robyn Lines and Peter Muir -- 11. Better Together / Anne Oxley -- 12. The Seven Steps / Jamie Thompson -- 13. Mission Impossible? / Veronique Johnston -- 14. Standing Out in a Big Crowd / Steve Outram -- 15. Too Much Too Soon? / Roger Landbeck -- 16. We're Not Laughing Now / Sylvia Huntley-Moore and John Panter -- 17. Far Too Successful / David Baume -- 18. Take One Country ... / Suki Ekaratne.

19. Ways to Make Things Better - One, Two, Three! / Alison Holmes -- Conclusion: Insights from the Case Studies.