Currently, four staff teachers lead and coordinate the project. One is the project coordinator responsible for the day-to-day management of the project. The staff teachers help establish and build the capacity of the partnership of physicists and teachers at each center. Each staff teacher develops a close relationship with mentors and teachers at assigned centers, ensures that each center is visited at least once a year (new centers may require more visits) and keeps in touch via e-mail, phone, etc. With guidance from the PIs, the staff:

• Enable teams of teachers and physicists to implement effective center activities and to participate with other centers in national activities.
• Help to create online and hard-copy resources, maintain the Website, and provide support for teachers using resources.
• Help teachers create experiments that use computers for data acquisition and processing.
• Provide peer coaching for teachers including classroom visits.
• Support QuarkNet Fellows, teachers who have assumed national leadership positions within the project.
• Hold a variety of national activities such as Boot Camp and get togethers at AAPT meetings.
• Participate in broader impact activities that share QuarkNet experiences with other program providers and teachers and students.
• 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.
• Prepare for and attend program reviews.

(Another staff member is responsible for managing cosmic ray muon detector kit production and shipping and repair/replacement of detector equipment in the field.)