Creating Lasting Links

莱斯利学院最初请求为一个为期两年的项目提供支持，该项目是对其当前项目--创建调查社区--的扩展和细化。该项目的三项中心活动是：(1)每年为波士顿和马萨诸塞州剑桥市的80名小学教师提供机会，让他们在私营部门“跟踪”执业科学家90小时，然后他们将共同为课堂开发一项科学活动；(2)建立电子网络，允许教师教室、行业科学家实验室以及可能的学院和大学实验室之间进行电子邮件通信；(3)在教师及其导师之间举行双月一次的电话会议，以分享经验和想法。在谈判过程中，该项目持续了4年，受影响的教师人数达到160人，私营部门的捐款增加了一倍多。

Lesley College initially requested support for a two-year project to be an extension and elaboration of its current project, Creating Communities of Inquiry. The three central activities of the project are: (1) providing the opportunity for 80 elementary school teachers per year in the Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts to "shadow" practicing scientists in the private sector for 90 hours, following which they will jointly develop a science activity for the classroom; (2) establishing electronic networks that will permit electronic mail communication among the teachers' classrooms, industry scientists' laboratories, and possibly college and university laboratories; (3) conducting bimonthly teleconference among the teachers and their mentors to share experiences and ideas. In the course of negotiations the project's duration became 4 years, the number of teachers affected became 160, and the private sector's contributions more than doubled.