Drawing from Bhabha's (2004) concept of interstices, we examined what constitutes quality teaching through a collaborative autoethnographic study. As two authors with different cultural backgrounds (a U.S.-based teacher educator born and raised in Korea and a U.S. elementary teacher candidate pursuing a career opportunity in Korea), we…

In prior studies, we examined Collective Classroom Efficacy (CCE) through the role of teacher and through the voices of students in a diverse classroom developing CCE. One participant exhibited an element of hope that added to her learning experience. Through Lara's telling case, we illustrate how she accomplished her goals through interactions…

The purpose of this case study was to explore a previously theorized construct, Collective Classroom Efficacy, through student voices. We interviewed nine former sixth-graders a decade after their classroom experience as they articulated at a reunion the importance of their former cohesive classroom community. To provide data triangulation we…