Chapter 9: Lessons Learned: A Case of One Teacher’s Common Planning Time Experience

This study examines 1 middle school teacher’s experience with common planning time (CPT). The main case focuses on the benefits and barriers of CPT and how this teacher uses and experiences it. The study offers insights into the complexities of interdisciplinary team planning and the ongoing, national research of the Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group’s National Middle Grades Research Program. The instrumental case study draws on qualitative methodology, joining writing as inquiry and analysis through a poststructuralist perspective. As a result, an interrelated discourse elucidates the teacher’s experience and may do so for others engaged in CPT.