"Remember kids, the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down." I kept coming back to the quote from Mythbuster Adam Savage throughout the course. I have been teaching for twenty years, and I am good enough at it that I don't often think about it or write it down. If this is true, then I spend a lot of time screwing around. I teach, and I teach well, but intuition, accepted pedagogy, and anecdotal evidence has a tendency to become firmware when relied upon too heavily. The point of action research is to rewrite the code by literally writing down the data to be analyzed. Early in the class the veteran teacher voice kept screaming, "but this is what you do anyway." By the end of the course I realized that as much as I purport to love science, I take short cuts and make assumptions much like those that I decry in others.