The 3-year Wisconsin Action Research Project was designed to bring together teams of practitioners from general and special education and provide them with training and support to conduct action research studies. This report describes the first pilot year of the project. First-year action studies attempted to address the following three outcomes: effective practices with students having exceptional educational needs; collaboration among preservice and inservice educators; and alignment of special education reforms with reforms in general education. The project's overall efforts have involved the development of an action research training curriculum delivered to five teams of teachers and the provision of technical support to each team by a university/college faculty member. The five teams include both rural and suburban early childhood education teams examining successful transitions from an early childhood special needs program to an inclusive kindergarten; a suburban elementary team evaluating effectiveness of general and special educators teaming to teach language arts; an urban elementary team examining the realistic aspects of inclusion and team teaching; and an urban secondary team examining the efficacy of a content mastery program. (Contains 15 references.) (DB)