LaunchPAD: A Web Portal for Support of Professional Development Schools and the Novice Teacher

Project Description
This project, a Board of Regents funded grant ($50,000) consists of the development of LaunchPAD, a web portal for the support of professional development schools (PDS) and novice teachers in Louisiana. LaunchPAD will provide news, articles relevant to individuals implementing professional development schools and novice teachers, mentoring through online discussion and real-time chat, tools for tracking professional development, and three online mini-courses for the purpose of orienting pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, and administrators to the professional development school model.

Responsibilities: Principal investigator, Member of Design Team, programmer, and management of programmers

Status: Currently in the design phase with launch expected May 2001.