“My Struggle” has set off a debate about which genre it properly belongs to. The original Norwegian version put the word “novel” on the title page, implying a certain distancing from the real events the book portrays, but that designation has been removed from the American edition, a decision that Mr. Knausgaard attributed to his American publisher, Archipelago Books.

“It was a conscious choice not to label the book for the reader,” Jill Schoolman, the founder of Archipelago, wrote in an e-mail. “I feel that ‘the project’ dwells comfortably between (and embraces both) fiction and memoir. (Aren’t they always inextricably entwined?) Why try to define or label the work?”

--from He Says a Lot, For a Norweigan.  Books. The New York Times (June 18, 2012)

Yellow Group:

Recruitment:

• Create a package (of information)
• Clarify what is common in network
• 'Market' at career fairs, try to collectively compete with TFA
• Encourage faculty to present teaching as option, plant idea early
• Video? market teaching when students choose major
• Hire undergrads as teaching assistants
• Make connections with science + math faculty

Sharing best practices for preparation+ induction:

• Where do we get resources?
• Website (?) for sharing ideas
• i.e. invite recent grads back to talk to undergrads
•      look at CIRTL (Center for Integr. of Research Teaching and Learning)
•      get list of grad websites resources
•      how to choose/ support master/ clinical teachers

Preparing/ opportunities for teacher leadership:

• Invite new teachers to get together to share
• Building capacity for master teachers

Share resources:

• Summer program for contact specific pedagogy

Blue Group:

Challenges: