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Our initial impetus in thinking about research and practice as the same grew from an effort to find better ways to coordinate our efforts in doing both research and practice in our academic lives (Wulff and St. George, 2014). Looking at the basic steps involved in each process, we were intrigued by the strong similarities. Practitioners focus on a problem or concern and so do researchers. Practitioners assemble information about the issue (i.e., interviews with their clients, history-taking, reading case files, performing tests or assessments, consulting with others) and researchers collect data (interviews, observations, written documents/archival materials, questionnaires/surveys). Practitioners assemble the information to conceptualize how to understand the situation while researchers design ways to analyze their data in order to develop understanding. Practitioners use the conceptualization to intervene or provide assistance while researchers transform the data with the methodologies to produce knowledge/understanding. Practitioners assess the impact of their efforts to determine whether to continue or to change course while researchers make conclusions about what they have learned through their processes and publish their results (and perhaps create new research projects to extend the knowledge).