Teams will participate in six hands-on sessions focusing on developing teacher leaders who will be trained to become mentors. Consultants from Curriculum Facilitators Corporation will act as mentors for two sessions. A master teacher will lead the effort to revamp high school algebra and statistics instruction through the integration of appropriate technology tools and strategies. All Amherst-Pelham high school algebra teachers will be expected to take the algebra workshop. The Athol-Royalston School District will create a series of professional development activities amounting to 30 hours, held after school and on Saturdays to establish teacher leaders in each of the District's nine schools.
Training offers a wide variety of topics.
Teacher leaders will mentor other teachers for a minimum of fifteen hours. Training will be extended to ten teachers from neighboring schools. Thirty hours of follow-up mentoring will also be required, and a technology fair will be held at the end of the year. Ten professionals will be trained in Networking Essentials and Windows NT by a Microsoft Authorized Technical Education Center. Participants will be selected by an application process beginning in November 1998.