Things we should learn more about or do or share better

Develop and disseminate (to teachers and schools!) Best Practices in:

• technology support
• professional development
• teacher collaboration
• "beyond classroms" -- what are successful school models other than a nation of rooms with 1 teacher and xx students.

Reduce isolation of teachers -- facilitate high-quality on-line collaboration -- new collaborative tools needed?

Create a distributed flexible national teacher enhancement enterprise

Pre-service training must be improved

Relations among standards, technology, standardized tests, other outcomes -- working toward improved and better understood shared Vision(s) of Education

Critical factors in institutionalizing innovation / Creating climates that support change as a means of problem-solving in schools, including: obtaining administrative buy-in, overcoming controversy, developing community support, identifying & addressing policy obstacles, reward systems that support desirable behaviors, teacher sharing