University Partnership to Deliver Statewide PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

The article focuses on the collaborative effort between Fort Hays State University and Emporia State University in Kansas that resulted in the development of a unique professional development institute which aims to provide workshops for middle school science teachers in rural areas. The institute was managed concurrently at the two universities and coordinated through distance-education technologies. Workshops offered by the institute mainly focus on preparing teachers how to implement a modeling, pedagogical approach to improve the teaching and learning of high school physics.