Archived Information

**1996 Challenge Grant Awards**

**California**

**Berkeley Unified School District**\
Project Name: Teacher LED Technology Challenge\
Contact: Harvey Pressman\
1720 Oregon Street\
Berkeley, CA 94703\
Telephone: (510) 644--6490\
Fax: (510) 644--7738\
E-mail: presstoe@aol.com\
Web site: tltc.berkeley.k12.ca.us/

The Berkeley Technology Transformation Demonstration will use new
multimedia technologies to support challenging curriculum standards in
all preschool, elementary, and middle school classrooms. A carefully
staged 5-year implementation strategy will train classroom teachers to
provide leadership for technology based learning in each school. Family
involvement will be promoted through the \"Technokids\" computer lending
program that gets computers into the homes of underachieving students.
Technology will be integrated throughout the core curriculum. Teachers
will be trained to adapt these technologies to each student\'s learning
needs, including those with severe disabilities. Twenty-five consortium
members will contribute to this effort.

**Sweetwater Union High School District**\
Project Name: ACT Now! (Advanced Curriculum through Technology) Project\
Contact: James Frazee\
1130 - 5th Avenue\
Chula Vista, CA 91911\
Telephone: (619) 691--5780\
Fax: (619) 585--8817\
E-mail: james.frazee@suhsd.k12.ca.us\
Web site: www.suhsd.k12.ca.us/actnow/

The ACT Now! (Advanced Curriculum through Technology) Project will
create an extensive bank of teacher-developed, technology-enriched
learning activities, and it will support the development of multimedia
electronic portfolios by all students in the district. A wireless
telecommunication network, to be established by the district and its
partners, will link schools to each other, to community sites, and to
worldwide resources, providing equitable access to low-income
communities in the area. Work stations at public libraries,
collaborative community centers, and local private schools will extend
community access to information, including availability of training and
career opportunities. To strengthen and expand San Diego's Countywide
School-to-Career Partnership, Tech Prep career majors will be added, and
teachers will be trained in current uses of technology in the workforce.
Students in all of the district\'s nineteen secondary schools and in the
Adult and Continuing Education Division will benefit from these new
technologies. Twelve consortium members will contribute to this effort.

**Hawaii**

**Hawaii State Department of Education**\
Project Name: The Electronic School\
Contact: Diana Oshiro\
1390 Miller Street, Rm. 314\
Honolulu, HI 96813\
Telephone: (808) 586--3349\
Fax: (808) 586--3645\
E-mail: diana@hawaii.edu\
Web site: www.eschool.k12.hi.us/

In collaboration with Tech Corps Hawaii, the Hawaii State Department of
Education is developing a comprehensive program using innovative
technologies to raise the achievement of at risk students and their
families. The program will provide students and families with access to
these technologies at places and times that extend beyond the normal
boundaries and schedules of the school. Traditional schools will be
transformed into learning centers that use the Internet and other
telecommunications to extend the time and place for learning. The
curriculum content will be aligned with state and national performance
standards, and it will incorporate \"real world, problem solving
strategies\" to facilitate the transition of students from school to
work. Twenty-seven consortium members will contribute to the work of
this project.

**Illinois**

**Pekin Public School District #108**\
Project Name: Learning Community 2000\
Contact: Chuck Bowen\
501 Washington Street\
Pekin, IL 61554--4239\
Telephone: (309) 477--4740\
Fax: (309) 477--4701\
E-mail: cbowen@pekin.net\
Web site: www.pekin.net/pekin108/lc2000/index.html

Learning Community 2000 addresses the need to strengthen civics
education by promoting informed discourse and responsible participation
in a democracy changed by emerging information technologies. Through
\"Congresslink\", an interactive multimedia project of the Dirksen
Congressional Leadership Research Center, students and teachers will be
linked to national researchers as apprentices in the study of
government. Community based centers will provide students and parents
with an opportunity to extend their studies beyond the confines of the
school day. Fifteen consortium partners will contribute to this effort.

**Kirby School District 140**\
Project Name: The Reality Based Learning Project\
Contact: Edward O'Shaffer\
Administrative Center, Box 98\
Tinley Park, IL 60477\
Telephone: (708) 532--6462\
Fax: (708) 802--9560\
E-mail: hdannenberg@140.s-cook.k12.il.us\
Web site: www.d348.wabash.k12.il.us

The \"Reality Based Learning Project\" is designed to create a network
of nine Illinois schools in which teachers and students use their
knowledge and skills to serve as consultants, addressing \"real-world
problems,\" generated through an active collaboration with business,
government, community organizations, and higher education. The problems
will be initiated, and research carried out and reported by teams of
students and industry personnel working together in extended
relationships that are part mentorship, part collaboration, but entirely
productive for both schools and industry. These relationships will be
supported by new types of interactive computer and communications
technologies, including the Internet. Twenty-one consortium members will
support this project.

**Indiana**

**Gary Community School Corp**\
Project Name: Students As Agents of Change\
Contacts: Leslie Green and Jessie Dingy\
620 East 10th Place\
Gary, IN 46402\
Telephone: (219) 881--5508 or (219) 881--5406\
Fax: (219) 881--2070\
E-mail: lgreen@surfnetinc.com or jdingy@surfnetinc.com\
Web site: www.surfnetinc.com/gary_schools/chalgrt.htm

Beginning in the middle schools, teachers and students will master
common skills in multimedia development to create curriculum materials,
and reports on African and African-American heritage that can be added
to the traditional curriculum. Local fraternities, sororities, and
community organizations will provide mentoring, and students will
enhance their mastery by serving as cross-age tutors in the use of
multimedia. The Gary Public Libraries will support extensions of the
curriculum in afterschool and community programs. Thirteen consortium
members will participate in the project.

**Maine**

**Old Orchard Beach School District**\
Project Name: Electronic Learning Marketplace\
Contacts: Kathleen Lee\
28 Jameson Hill Road\
Old Orchard Beach, ME 04064\
Telephone: (207) 934--5751\
Fax: (207) 934--1917\
E-mail: klee@jameson.oob.k12.me.us

Debra Smith\
Managing Director\
Southern Maine Partnership/University of Southern Maine\
301c Bailey Hall\
Gorham, ME 04038\
Telephone: (207) 780--5288\
Fax: (207) 228--8209 Fax\
E-mail: dsmith@usm.maine.edu\
Web site: www.elm.maine.edu/

The Southern Maine Partnership involves 27 school districts, 3 private
schools, 3 colleges, and the University of Southern Maine, who will work
together to provide new learning opportunities that will enable students
and teachers to meet the high academic standards defined by Maine's
Learning Results. The schools will be linked by an interactive,
multimedia Web site that contains resources linked to teaching,
learning, and assessment of progress toward the performance indicators
defined by Maine's Learning Results. Each learning unit and related
Internet resources will be keyed to specific grade level standards
within each content area. A total of 35 consortium partners will
participate in this activity.

**Massachusetts**

**Hudson Public Schools**\
Project Name: The Virtual High School\
Contact: Bruce Droste\
37 Thoreau Street\
Concord, MA 01742\
Telephone: (978) 371--3489\
Fax: (978) 371--3995\
E-mail: bruce@notes.concord.org\
Web site: vhs.concord.org/home.htm

This Virtual High School Collaborative is based on a national coalition
of educators and businesses. Teachers at 80 schools across the country
will develop and offer \"Netcourses\" which will draw on the rich
variety of learning resources available over the Internet. These
netcourses will serve the specialized needs of diverse students in both
academic and vocational programs. No single high school has the
resources to expand its offerings to meet all the needs of its students,
but this collaborative of schools will pool their strengths to exploit
Internet resources that can accelerate advanced study and the transition
of their students into the workplace or postsecondary education. Almost
80 consortium partners will participate in this effort.

**Lawrence Public Schools**\
Project Name: Teaching and Learning with Technology\
Contact: Patricia Knox\
255 Essex Street\
Lawrence, MA 0l841\
Telephone: (978) 975--5905 ext. 330\
Fax: (978) 975--5904\
E-mail: pknox@lawrence.k12.ma.us\
Web site: www.vcni.com/lpschools/gate.htm

In this city of recent immigrants, high performance technologies will be
used to provide teachers with new tools to engage students as active
learners capable of mastering challenging academic subject matter. New
technologies and telecommunication networks will be used to strengthen
the link between school and home, by providing parents with skills to
support student achievement. By eliminating the barriers imposed by the
traditional school schedule, these technologies will greatly extend the
places and times that children learn. The project will use the \"next
generation\" of Internet hardware for in-home applications of
educational software directly correlated to the school curriculum and
Massachusetts Instructional Standards. Eight consortium members will
contribute to this project.

**Michigan**

**Melvindale-Northern Allen Park Public Schools**\
Project Name: The Primary Sources Network\
Contact: Ron Marx\
University of Michigan\
610 East University\
Room 4115\
Ann Arbor, MI, 48109\
Telephone: (734) 615--0287\
Fax: (734) 763--1504\
E-mail: Ronmarx@umich.edu\
Web site: www.hi-ce.org

A consortium of 14 school districts in partnership with Michigan State
University and the Henry Ford Museum will use the Web and distance
learning over the Internet to improve student learning. Students and
teachers will have access to primary sources of scientific and
technological innovation, with an emphasis on the historical and
cultural forces that affect creativity and change. An electronic journal
on the Internet will document student and teacher performance, and it
will contribute to continuous quality improvement throughout the
project. Nine consortium partners will contribute to this work.

**Missouri**

**Independence Missouri School District**\
Project Name: Project WhistleStop\
Contact: Kathleen Vest\
210 Truman Road\
Independence, MO 64050\
Telephone: (816) 252--6436\
Fax: (816) 252--4917\
E-mail: kvest@indep.k12.mo.us\
Web site: www.whistlestop.org/

Project WhistleStop will enable educators to work with the Harry S.
Truman Library to put original resource documents online. Teachers will
develop new curricula and on-line instructional lessons. Students will
use these resources to create online research portfolios. For example, a
team of Independence High School students with an interest in the
decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima would use interactive
software to tour the Truman Library and access original source
documents. They could review project folios of work done by students
from across the state in previous years, and search for historians
willing to mentor students with this research. Eleven consortium
partners will contribute to this work.

**Missouri School District**\
Project Name: The Trails Project\
Contact: Tina Littlejohn\
306 E. 12th Street, Suite 700\
Kansas City, MO 64106\
Telephone: (816) 418--7146\
Fax: (816) 418--7675\
E-mail: tlittle@E-mail.kcmsd..k12.mo.us.\
Web site: trails.kcmsd.k12.mo.us/

Teachers and students representing schools along the Oregon and Santa Fe
Trails will work in partnership with universities, museums, historical
groups and interested citizens to learn about the trails and to
communicate, through technology, what they discover. Students will
conduct onsite and online research with original historical documents to
study the effects of westward expansion on the environment. Students and
teachers in schools along the trails will examine how communities and
cultures along the trails developed and changed over time, and they will
exchange their knowledge with each other through CDs, videos, and the
Internet. A total of 36 consortium partners will participate.

**Nebraska**

**Seward Public Schools**\
Project Name: The Connection Project\
Contact: Lawrence S. Bundy\
301 Centennial Mall South\
P.O. Box 94987\
Lincoln, NE 68509--4987\
Telephone: (402) 471--2183\
Fax: (402) 471--0117\
E-mail: lbundy@nde.state.ne.us\
Web site: ois.unomaha.edu/connections

The Connections Project will enable middle and secondary school teachers
in Nebraska to create and implement integrated curricula supported by
technology. The project will increase the capacity of educators to teach
effectively through integrated curriculum reflecting Nebraska and Goals
2000. A cadre of 600 will be trained to assist colleagues in effective
use of technology to improve the achievement of high risk students in
core academic subjects. Nebraska's extensive telecommunication networks,
and established Internet hub sites, will be used to create a statewide
learning community of middle and secondary school teachers. A total of
30 consortium partners will contribute to this work.

**New York**

**New York City Board of Education**\
Project Name: The Eiffel Project\
Contact: Robert McClintock\
Institute for Learning Technologies\
Teachers College, Columbia University\
525 W. 120th Street, Box 136\
New York, NY 10027--6696\
Telephone: (212) 678--3375\
Fax: (212) 678--4048\
E-mail: rom2@columbia.edu\
Web site: www.ilt.columbia.edu/eiffel/execover.htm

A consortium, led by the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) and
the Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT) at Columbia University is
joining with the New York Board of Education and several information and
telecommunications firms to demonstrate how low income children can
achieve world-class education standards. The project will use digital
libraries, desktop videoconferencing, collaborative problem solving with
digital tools, and multimedia portfolios to link learning resources
across schools. The project serves disadvantaged students in areas
including the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone and several communities
in the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn. Twenty-one consortium partners and
47 schools will contribute to this effort.

**Community School District One**\
Project Name: America Gateways: Immigration and Migration in the United
States\
Contact: David Bellel\
80 Montgomery Street\
New York, NY 10002--8010\
Telephone: (212) 602--9779\
Fax: (212) 602--9730\
E-mail: david_bellel@fc1.nycenet.edu\
Web site: www.nycenet.edu/csd1/gateways.htm

District One on New York City's lower east side and Districts Four and
Five in Harlem will establish a consortium of teachers, staff
developers, curriculum specialists, community leaders, software
developers, and university faculty, who will restructure the curriculum
around the theme of immigration and migration in the United States. The
\"American Gateways\" project will engage students in challenging
studies that meet national goals and New York's Curriculum Framework for
school improvement. An electronic Web, and a host of community members
and resources, will be used to draw together ethnically diverse
populations, reducing the separation of groups, and increasing the
realization that people are far more the same than different and that
they are all working to reach similar goals. A total of 29 consortium
partners will participate.

**Corning City School District**\
Project Name: The Corning Community Project for Learning and Teaching\
Contact: Michael D. Bracy\
165 Charles Street\
Painted Post, NY 14870\
Telephone: (607) 936--3704\
Fax: (607) 936--0536\
Web site: www.corningareaschools.com

The Corning School District will work with local partners including, The
Corning Museum of Glass and Corning Inc., to address two challenges: how
to prepare students to meet the demands of a rapidly changing workplace,
and how to address the issue of fairness and equity in a community
characterized by social and economic extremes. Beginning with the two
middle schools, students and faculty will be provided with an
interactive local computer network and Internet access. Additionally,
computers and access to the school network from home will be provided
for economically disadvantaged students. The introduction of computers
into the curriculum is an integral part of the Corning School District's
5-year Strategic Action Plan. A total of 19 consortium members will
participate.

**North Carolina**

**Guilford County Schools**\
Project Name: ABC Technology in Education Partnership\
Contact: Judy Flake\
425 Prescott Street\
Greensboro, NC 27401\
Telephone: (336) 378--8813\
Fax: (336) 378--8812 E-mail: flakej@guilford.k12.nc.us\
Web site: www.abcnet.org

Students in five North Carolina counties will improve their skills in
mathematics, science, social studies, and reading through the
integration of technology into the curriculum. The project will use a
new statewide network to provide academic resources and teacher training
across schools. Applications of technology and extensive teacher
training, supported by a technology center, will be integrated with
statewide goals for school improvement. Seventeen consortium partners
will participate in this activity.

**Pennsylvania**

**Greene County Vocational-Technical School**\
Project Name: Greene County Technology Initiative\
Contact: Jim Zalar, Superintendent\
Carmichaels Area School District\
Carmichaels, PA 15320\
Telephone: (724) 966--5045\
Fax: (724) 966--8793\
E-mail: jzarlar@carmichaels-area.k12.pa.us\
Web site: gctc.grvt.org

Five Greene County school districts in partnership with the local
college and telecommunication firms developed a technology-based
education system that prepares students for college, the workplace,
advanced technical training, and business ownership or management. This
is Phase II of a project that began with a Goals 2000 grant to train
teachers and develop new curriculum content. Integration of computers
with this curriculum will meet the needs of students and adults in this
rural community with a changing economy. A total of 14 consortium
partners will contribute to this effort.

**Tennessee**

**Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools**\
Project Name: Schools for Thought\
Contacts: Faye Wilmore and Jeff Swink\
2301 10th Avenue, South\
Nashville, TN 37204\
Telephone: (615) 463--2068\
Fax: (615) 463--2071\
E-mail: wilmoref@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us or\
swinkj@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us\
Web site: www.teacherweb.com/tn/nashville/jacqui

The Schools for Thought pilot project, which began in middle schools,
will be expanded to Elementary and High Schools. In this partnership
between the Nashville schools, Vanderbilt University, and a host of
other consortium members, students will use computers to improve their
achievement in mathematics, science, and literacy. Telecommunications
and computers will bring challenging \"real-world problems\" into the
classroom, where students will be guided by their teachers to do
research, define questions, develop solutions and reach conclusions. A
total of 37 consortium members will participate.

**Virginia**

**Norfolk Public Schools**\
Project Name: The Education Connection\
Contact: Moira Rankin and Anna Maria deFreitas\
525 Main Street, Suite 105\
Laurel, MD 20707\
Telephone: (301) 317--0110\
Fax: (301) 317--6794\
E-mail: moira@soundprint.org or am@soundprint.org\
Web site: www.educonnect.org

The Norfolk Public School District, in collaboration with six public
broadcasting organizations and 21 schools in 6 states, will create an
interactive network that will meet the needs for curriculum-focused
technology and sustained teacher training in schools. The collaborative,
known as \"The Education Connection\" will use networked technologies,
computer based education materials, and audio-visual resources to create
and disseminate new curriculum and train teachers. The curriculum will
focus on core subject areas at each grade level, including: mathematics,
science, reading, writing, geography, social studies, and fine arts. A
total of 41 partners will contribute to the project.

**Franklin County Public Schools**\
Project Name: Accepting the Challenge\
Contact: Mary Altice\
25 Bernard Road\
Rocky Mount, VA 24151\
Telephone: (540) 48--5289\
Fax: (540) 483--8744\
E-mail: maltice@frco.k12.va.us\
Web site: www.frco.k12.va.us

As part of a comprehensive school reform initiative, the Franklin County
schools will integrate computers and appropriate information technology
into the curriculum at all grade levels. To meet the demands of today's
workforce, the County's young people must be able to use new
technologies to solve problems, think critically, and develop strong
academic skills. The school system is designing an innovative program
that prepares students to pursue a variety of career paths that build on
strong academic and computer skills. The Center for Applied Technology
and Career Exploration will provide teacher training and staff support
for the program. A total of 14 consortium partners will participate.

**Washington**

**Olympia School District**\
Project Name: Generation WHY\
Contact: Dennis Harper\
1113 Legion Way SE\
Olympia, WA 98501\
Telephone: (360) 753--8835\
Fax: (360) 664--0745\
E-mail: dharper@genwhy.wednet.edu\
Web site: www.genyes.org/genwwwy/

The Generation WHY Project in the Olympia School District focuses on
today's new generation of youth as partners, and often as leaders, in
bringing technology into the classroom. The District will be the lead
agency for a national network of 14 school districts that will use this
unique strategy, which secondary school students train teachers to
integrate computers into the curriculum. The Olympia model, which has
already been successful in the district's secondary schools will be used
to train a cadre of student and teacher technology leaders, who will
establish a Web site with guidelines for using new technologies to
improve student learning. A total of 20 consortium partners will
contribute to the project.

**Seattle Public Schools**\
Project Name: The Seattle Community of Learners System\
Contact: John Thorp\
815 Fourth Avenue North\
Seattle, WA 98109\
Telephone: (206) 298--7135\
Fax: (206) 298--7137\
jthorp@cks.ssd.k12.wa.us

The Seattle School District is developing a comprehensive approach to
school improvement by creating new learning environments in which
students, parents, and educators will be connected to workplaces through
electronic information systems. Teachers will receive instruction and
certification in educational technology, and the schools will produce a
better educated technology workforce. New technology classes will be
provided for large numbers of low-income public housing residents. The
district will also develop a new 11^th^ and 12^th^ grade \"Information
Technology Career Pathway\" in cooperation with Microsoft Corporation,
which will prepare students for Microsoft certification and future
employment in technology careers. A total of 14 consortium partners will
contribute to this work.

**West Virginia**

**Monogalia County Board of Education**\
Project Name: Your Future in WV Growing Together\
Contact: Lydotta M. Taylor\
13 South High Street\
Morgantown, WV\
Telephone: (304) 291--9210\
Fax: (304) 291--3015\
E-mail: taylor@access.mountain.net\
Web sites: www.wvhtf.org/toc/chalmain.html\
www.phase9.org/

Monongalia schools, in conjunction with 8 additional county school
districts, the State Department of Education, the West Virginia High
Technology Consortium Foundation, and 10 local businesses will work with
152 schools in the State to increase the use of computers in the
classroom, expand career education curriculum opportunities, and
increase parent and community involvement through Technology Opportunity
Centers. At the Opportunity Centers, students, parents, and displaced
workers will have access to computers for job searches and career
development. The Foundation is creating a \$12 million center to support
this program, with 80 percent funded by private sources. A total of 13
consortium partners will participate in this effort.