Teresa McCarty Distinguished Professor and GF Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology; Faculty, American Indian Studies University of California, Los Angeles Improvement Approaches Community-based research Critical participatory action research Community-based participatory research Critical/Collaborative Ethnography; Critical Qualitative Research; Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies Improvement Contexts Research-practice partnerships Research alliances School Classrooms Communities Indigenous research-practice-policy partnerships Email Teresa.McCarty@ucla.edu