APPENDIX A: PRE AND POST INTERVIEW GUIDES Pre-Interview Guide:

March 2014 Demographics:

1. How many years have you been teaching? 2. What grade do you teach?

3. How many years have you participated in the Reconnect and Recharge (R&R) program? Inquiry:

1. What factors led you to choose to be a participant in R&R?

2. In your eyes, what do you think R&R provides to beginning teachers? 3. What are the main reasons you choose to continue to participate in R&R?

4. As a novice teacher, are there any particular ways that R&R provided support? Did these differ from support you have received elsewhere? Describe in detail and use examples if possible.

5. What are your main incentives for participating in R&R, if any?

6. Are there any drawbacks from participating in R&R? If so, what are they?

7. There can be six weeks to three months times in between R&R sessions. How do you feel about the amount of time in between sessions of R&R?

8. How would you describe your participation in the face-to-face R&R? Were there moments when you choose not to participate? If so, why?

9. How comfortable are you with the prospect of sharing dilemmas and/or contributing your opinions with the group in an online format?

10.Is there anything else you think I should know to understand the support in this novice teacher community better?

11.Do you have any concerns or questions regarding the upcoming online R&R? 12.Is there anything you would like to ask me?

Post-interview Guide: May 2014

Demographics:

1. Are you still in the same teaching position as when this study began? If not, what are you teaching?

Inquiry:

1. Do you feel that R&R is an effective support system for novice teachers? In what ways? In what ways is it not?

2. Specifically in terms of the R&R face-to-face sessions, how, if any, did you feel the conversations surrounding “dilemmas of practice” supported you in your teaching? In what ways did you feel you were not supported?

3. Did you feel that you supported your fellow community members during the face-to-face sessions? In what ways? If not, what made you feel that way?

4. How would you describe your participation in the face-to-face R&R? Were there moments when you chose not to participate?

5. Specifically in terms of the R&R online community, how, if any, did you feel the virtual conversations supported you in your teaching? In what ways was it not supportive or helpful?

6. Did you feel that you supported your fellow community members in the online community? In what ways? If not, what made you feel that way?

7. How would you describe your participation in the online R&R? Were there moments when you chose not to participate?

8. For you, was there a difference in the support you felt during the face-to-face sessions versus the online community? Describe in detail and use examples if possible.

9. Did you participate differently in the face-to-face versus the online community?

10.Did the addition of the online technology component impact the final face-to-face session in May (or January)? In what ways?

11.What changes would you make, if any, to the face-to-face component? 12.What changes would you make, if any, to the online component?

each other?

14.As a novice teacher, were there any particular ways that R&R, either face-to-face and/or online, provided support? Did these differ from support you have received elsewhere? Describe in detail and use examples if possible.

15.Is there anything else you think I should know to understand the support in this CoP better?

16.Is there anything you would like to ask me? Pre-Interview Guide:

November 2014 Demographics:

1. How many years have you been teaching? 2. What grade do you teach?

3. How many years have you participated in the Reconnect and Recharge (R&R) program? Inquiry into support:

4. What factors led you to choose to be a participant in R&R?

5. In your eyes, what do you think R&R provides to beginning teachers?

6. As a novice teacher, are there any particular ways that you look for support in your profession? Describe in detail and use examples if possible.

Inquiry into Web 2.0 knowledge:

7. Are you comfortable with technology? What types of technology do you use professionally? What types of technology do you use in your personal time?

8. Are you able to access the Internet at your school, either via school-owned or personal technology?

9. On average, how much time do you spend per week online for personal reasons? 10.On average, how much time do you spend per week online for professional reasons? 11.How comfortable are you with the prospect of sharing dilemmas and/or contributing your

12.Do you have any concerns or questions regarding the upcoming online R&R? 13.Is there anything you would like to ask me?

Post-interview Guide: January 2015

Demographics:

1. Are you still in the same teaching position as when this study began? If not, what are you teaching?

Inquiry into CoP:

1. How would you describe your participation in the face-to-face R&R? Were there moments when you chose not to participate? If so, why?

2. How would you describe your participation in the online R&R? Were there moments when you chose not to participate? If so, why?

3. On average, how many hours per week did you spend on the R&R website?

4. How would you describe your overall participation in R&R? Was your participation the same when R&R was face-to-face versus online? If it differed, how so?

5. Did you feel that you were engaged with your fellow community members in the online community? In what ways? If not, why?

6. For you, was there a difference in the way you interacted during the face-to-face sessions versus the online community? Describe in detail and use examples if possible.

7. What changes would you make, if any, to the online component?

8. As a novice teacher, were there any particular ways that R&R, either face-to-face and/or online, provided support? Did these differ from support you have received elsewhere? Describe in detail and use examples if possible.

9. Overall, do you feel like you belong to a community during the face-to-face sessions? Please describe.

10.Overall, do you feel like you belong to a community during the online sessions? Please describe.

11.Did the blended community experience feel singular in nature or like two different experiences? What made it feel the way it did?

APPENDIX B: CONTENT THEMES AND EXAMPLES