Dr. Nancy Chick, co-editor of the scholarly journal Teaching & Learning Inquiry, has just edited a new book to introduce folks to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), the movement within higher education encouraging professors from across the disciplines to research their own teaching. The short, lively, conversational chapters in SoTL in Action: Illuminating Critical Moments in Practice, written by leading figures in the field, cover foundational concepts of SoLT research—what the perfect moment to launch an inquiry looks like, how to decide what research assumptions to operate on, how and why to conduct a literature review—as well as practical research methods—surveys, interviews, “think aloud” protocols, etc. For anyone interested in examining their own teaching and their own students’ learning more rigorously and systematically, this informed, practical, and engaging book is the obvious first stop. (Full disclaimer: Nancy and I are pals, but I nonetheless stand by my enthusiasm for this book.)