This handbook is a roadmap for action research facilitators to help groups as they work through the research process. It offers quotations, handouts, strategies, resources, and insights from actual experiences. The sections of the handbook follow the action research cycle, focusing on: "What is Action Research?"; "What is the Action Research Process?"; "Why Action Research?"; "Developing a Question"; "Activities and Strategies"; "Data"; "Writing About Action Research"; "Sample Agendas"; "Getting Started in a School District"; "Facilitation Skills"; and "Resources." For each section, title pages describe the tools and processes included; clipboards describe the activities that facilitators can use to help action researchers as they move through the process; resource pages provide background information and support material; and balloons include comments that reflect what facilitators have learned about the process and working with groups. (Contains 28 references.) (SM)