Paula Rebolledo has 21 years of teaching experience and has taught at primary, secondary, undergraduate and postgraduate levels and in INSETT programmes. She currently teaches at MA level and works as a researcher and consultant. She is the former coordinator of teacher educationat the English Open Doors Programme (EODP) at the Ministry of Education in Chile. Her research interests include teaching young learners, teacher education, professional development and teacher-research. For the past 7 years, she has been mentoring teacher-research initiatives such as the Champion Teachers programme, the APTIS Action Research Award Scheme both funded by the British Council and the Laureate Action Research Scheme funded by Laureate Languages. She co-authored with Richard Smith A Handbook for Exploratory Action Research and co-edited the Champion Teachers Chile and Peru Stories of Exploratory Action Research. She is the co-founder of RICELT, the network of ELT research in Chile.