To support the post-Hurricane Katrina recovery process by providing teacher-to-teacher and classroom-to-classroom mentoring via web conferencing and other forms of long distance communication between teachers in the New Orleans public schools and teachers in schools in Washington state;
To provide curricular support, technology training and emotional encouragement for teachers impacted by Hurricane Katrina;
And to conduct community-based action research to determine how teacher-to-teacher mentoring via web conferencing and other forms of long distance communication can provide teacher professional development and retention.
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"If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring, straightforward work of getting a couple of people interested and building a slightly bigger organization and carrying out the next move and suffering frustration and finally getting somewhere." Noam Chomsky
