Writing Accounts for the Alternative Accountability Project has changed the manner in which I work with other adults in my school in several positive ways:

• The constant manipulation of data over the last two terms: collection, organization, uploading, and working with it on the site in a technological manner has made me somewhat of a Go-To person for technology in the school.  I am not the Computer teacher, but I have become a person that people feel will help them with their technology problems and people do come to me for support.  That is a new roll for me in the school with other adults.

• The writing of accounts has helped me to better articulate my understandings of my learning and the learning that is occuring in my classroom.  This has translated, for me, into being more able to express my understandings with other adults.  I can articulate how students have a broad range of understanding, and engage with them in a multidimensional way.  I am trying to integrate into my understanding the idea adults also have a broad range of understanding and I am trying to engage with them as I do with students - in a multidimensional way.  This has proved challenging for me, as I see it is challenging for many adults.

• As well as trying to learn and understand with other adults multidimensionally I have reduced the number of supervisory rolls I have taken in the organization of the school.  I see myself sitting on, and chairing less, committees - opening opportunities for and encouraging others to take on organizational rolls.  I am trying to position myself so I might learn with, and from, others.  I am listening, watching and integrating more.

• Also, where I have continued in a position as a 'leader' in the school I see that I  have used the position to open up spaces for conversations about 'learning', and 'knowledge' and 'collaboration'.  I see  myself looking for ways to see possibility for 'depth of learning' if worthwhile learning is occurring, or 'change' if 'change' seems to be required.

It has been interesting for me to watch myself learning, and strategizing with my learning in different venues.  I see when I learn something with students, write about it and then step back from it - I can often transfer the knowledge to myself in relation to other adults.  The reverse can also be true, I can recognize learning with other adults and transfer it to my students in my classroom.

For me the writing of these accounts has helped me to alter my relations, (or at least my perspectives of my relations), with other adults in my school in several positive ways.