Practitioner research provides one answer by involving teachers in the research process.
One solution is to form working groups of teachers and researchers who meet regularly to discuss and reflect on their practice. The ECME Calculators in Mathematics Education project brought together researchers and teachers from 34 schools in the Edinburgh area to investigate the possibilities of calculator use with primary and early secondary pupils. Ideas for calculator use were collected or developed by group members and circulated around the group. Teachers picked out and adapted appropriate ideas for their own classroom situation. At monthly meetings their experiences and opinions were discussed.