Five staff teachers will lead and coordinate the project. One of them will act as the project coordinator who will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the project. The staff teachers will help establish and build the capacity of the partnerships of physicists and teachers. Each staff teacher will develop a close relationship with mentors and teachers at assigned centers, visit each assigned center at least once a year (new centers will require more visits) and keep in touch via e-mail, phone, etc. With guidance from the PIs, the staff will:

• Develop guidelines for and assist teams of teachers and physicists to develop and implement programs.
• Help to create online and hard-copy resources, maintain the Website, and provide support for teachers using online resources.
• Help teachers create experiments that use computers for data acquisition and processing.
• Hold mentor orientation meetings, lead teacher institutes, reunion weekends at Fermilab and at AAPT meetings.
• Provide peer coaching for teachers including classroom visits.
• Give program presentations at professional meetings.
• Gather data to assess the project as requested by the outside evaluator.

In addition the project coordinator will:

• Help prepare and manage the budget.
• Write reports.