Work in progress - PRISM: a portal with a purpose

Accomplishing change in education must start where learning begins: with the classroom teacher. The "report to the Nation from the National commission on mathematics and science teaching in the 21st century" was unequivocal in its message (before it\´s too late. September 2000). The way to improve learning in science, mathematics, and technology is to improve teaching. And better teaching can be achieved through better preparation, professional development, and working conditions for our nation\´s teachers. Rose-Hulman institute of technology, with support from the Lilly endowment, is constructing a Web portal dedicated to improving middle school science, mathematics, and technology (SMT) instruction. Essentially, this gateway emulates emerging corporate practices of knowledge management (KM) and process reinvention through information technology (IT).