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198215 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.198215 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ All Rights Reserved 2024 190 pages Doctoral Dissertation Academic theses Text eng Harnisch, Jessica Marsh, Josephine Markos, Amy Borgman, Jessie Arizona State University Partial requirement for: Ed.D., Arizona State University, 2024 Field of study: Leadership and Innovation The purpose of this action research study was to design, implement, and study a reciprocal mentoring program for online instructors in Writers’ Studio (WS) at Arizona State University (ASU) and to explore what happened when instructors participate in the program. WS employs over 100 faculty who teach online in courses they do not design themselves. ASU administration provides professional development opportunities and access to a course coordinator for help, but instructors still felt disconnected from their peers, and there was no infrastructure to foster connections. An innovation called WISH – The Writing Instructor Support Hub was created for this study. WISH combined just-in-time support with professional development modules and a repository of materials for sharing teaching resources.A mixed methods action research design was used to explore what happened when WISH was created, how instructors supported each other, and how and to what extent participants’ perspectives shifted after joining the program. This study was informed by social constructivism, reciprocal mentoring, and the Community of Inquiry. Data for this project were collected from interviews, posts in online discussion forums, and a retrospective pre/post-WISH survey. Results showed that participants did create new connections and shared teaching resources with each other in ways they had not done previously. They used WISH to support each other both professionally and personally, and there were Educational leadership Teacher Education Action Research Community of Inquiry first year writing instruction peer mentoring Reciprocal Mentoring writing instructor training Reciprocal Mentoring for First-Year Writing Instructors