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In this article, the author examines her practices as a teacher educator in one course before and after returning to the secondary classroom to teach language learners full-time for one academic year. Based on her experiences, the author decided to make some deliberate and thoughtful changes to how she approached her work as a teacher educator. She changed the course framework in three ways: organization, epistemology, and making the course more practice-centered. However, the author learned that engaging teachers in practice-based teaching requires teacher educators to be specific and deliberate in setting their own purposes for the centrality of practice in their courses and programs and to explain these clearly to students.