Becoming a professional worker involves a wide range of cognitive, social, and cultural processes that have received extensive attention over the past decades amongst various disciplines. It is also not external to language use and communication. Novices in any occupation have to learn technical terms and are expected to master specific discourse…

This article is an excerpt from "Reflective Supervision" and "Leadership for Infant and Early Childhood Programs" (2010, ZERO TO THREE). The authors provide a brief overview of several group leadership roles, a discussion of the skills and strategies central to such roles, and vignettes of supervisory discussions using language infused with…

This report describes a "culturally contexted" conversation analysis approach to the study of naturally occurring speech in supervisory conferences. The supervisors and teachers were participants in a graduate program for beginning teachers, and the conference's purpose was supervisory evaluation of teachers' classroom performances. Ethnographic…