Designing a Multimedia Teaching and Learning Resource This project is a collaborative effort by teachers and researchers to create an interactive multimedia tool that investigates the "how" of teaching and learning in long-term projects. The finished product—which will be web-based or on CD-ROM—will include video of classroom interaction, interviews with teachers and students and examples of student work. Two years’ worth of video has been collected and teachers and researchers have begun analyzing the data and designing a prototype.
	Cool Tools, a Safe School Project Teachers, researchers and graduate students are working as a team to document the implementation of a safe school system created at Corrine A. Seeds University Elementary School (UES). Developed under the leadership of a UES health educator and a UCLA Department of Psychology faculty member, the system has been at UES for almost six years and has attracted interest from educators, parents and the national news media. This year team members pilot-tested the system at one school in the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD); CONNECT is working with UES and SMMUSD to explore means for using Cool Tools in other schools in the district and to follow up with systematic research on the effectiveness of the methods.
	Teacher-Research Group As part of UES’s effort to support teacher reflection and professional development, CONNECT has organized a teacher-research group in which teachers develop inquiry questions, learn practical skills to collect relevant information sources and write up their investigations for a variety of practitioner and research audiences.