From 2001-2005, two Practitioner-Research Associates worked as half-time ESL teachers for Portland Community College teaching the Lab School classes and worked half-time as researchers. The collaboration between the practitioners, university researchers and students in the MA TESOL program at Portland State University is an important aspect of the Lab School.

	Sandra Banke		Dominique Brillanceau

Since 2005, several teachers from Portland State’s Intensive English Language Program and the Russian Flagship Program have become researcher/practitioners designing research projects for the purposes of improving instruction.