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To guide my study, I have assembled a three-part theoretical framework: literate activity (Prior, 1998), mediated agency (Wertsch, 1991), and distributed cognition (Hutchins, 1995). All three of these theories invite a more holistic framing of the work of teacher planning and situate it in everyday practice. I use qualitative methodology to better situate and understand teachers' choices in their contexts. The data collection for this study extended over the course of a K-12 academic year, during which time I conducted semi-structured interviews, conducted participant observations, wrote jottings and field notes, and collected artifacts of planning and instruction, including participant-created screencast think-alouds. Findings indicated that planning is a social and distributed process that accrues over time and that it is responsive to its context. 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