Visit the IMPACT II-Teacher's Network Web site and get connected Also check out The 21st Century Teachers Network, a national network of teacher leaders helping their colleagues in education technology

IMPACT II-The Teachers Network Connects Innovative Teachers with Good Ideas IMPACT II-The Teachers Network is a nationwide, educational, non-profit organization that supports innovative teachers who exemplify professionalism, independence, and creativity in public school systems. It begins with a teacher's good idea. Through small grants, the Network helps the teacher package that innovation, connects teachers with interested colleagues and recruits all the interested teachers into a continuing professional and social network. Anyone who does a job well figures out ways to do it better. The Teachers Network designates teachers or teams of teachers who have developed better projects for their own classrooms as "disseminators" and awards them grants averaging $500. Teachers use the grant money to package their ideas and connect with other interested teachers, known as "adaptors," who receive grants to cut and fit the original ideas to their classrooms. The disseminator teachers want to help others improve their work; the adaptors want to make their own classrooms better. Because teacher-to-teacher teaching and learning does not happen magically, the Teachers Network manages the process. Innovative faculty members -- disseminators and adaptors -- are recruited into a professional and social network to further teaching and learning. The preceeding information was taken from the IMPACT II Web site.