Composed of teachers, researchers, and teacher educators, the Written Literacy Forum suggests a model for bringing research and practice together. During its first two years of operation, the forum (1) investigated the means of rendering research findings in a form meaningful to practitioners; (2) created three formats for sharing research findings--simulation games for graduate student-researchers, the small roundtable format for inservice meetings between practitioners and researchers, and group analysis of case studies; (3) noted that while teachers and preservice teachers sought the opinions of teacher members of the forum during inservice meetings, administrators and curriculum specialists tended to seek information from forum researchers; and (4) found from classroom observations that effective teachers alternate their attention and energies among three levels of sociocognitive environments for writing in the high school: the general social system of the classroom, the curriculum, and the needs of individual students. (Samples of teacher-made materials used during inservice activities are appended.) (MM)