-Uses students' and teachers' own accounts of effective classes to understand these all-too-rare classroom experiences. -Works in the conceptual space between two theoretical frameworks to distinguish the classroom experience of teachers from the experience of students. -Strikes a balance between theoretically-sophisticated and practically-oriented, in order to cut across scholarly and practitioner markets.

-Uses students' and teachers' own accounts of effective classes to understand these all-too-rare classroom experiences. -Works in the conceptual space between two theoretical frameworks to distinguish the classroom experience of teachers from the experience of students. -Strikes a balance between theoretically-sophisticated and practically-oriented, in order to cut across scholarly and practitioner markets.