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This study involved a partnership between a university in North Portugal and four cooperating schools. CoP participants were six teacher educators and four cooperating teachers (CTs) who work with twelve PSTs in the schools where they developed their teaching practices. Data collection included focus groups with CoP members and PSTs, CoP meetings, and school placement meetings. A thematic inductive\u2013deductive analysis revealed that CTs were actively engaged in the CoP, achieving mutual involvement and a shared repertoire, and making friendships beyond the CoP. Becoming practitioners\u2013researchers made CTs more critical of their teaching and supervisory roles. Supporting PSTs to be practitioners\u2013researchers was challenging, mostly due to PSTs\u2019 lack of content knowledge, which made it difficult to identify the students\u2019 problems in engaging with the proposed activities and how to solve them. 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