NTTI sites are responsible for all aspects of the local management and implementation of their NTTI project. As an NTTI site, you agree to the following guidelines.

General Guidelines

1. Every station must designate a staff person to serve as Manager of NTTI. In addition, the station must commit adequate personnel for planning, training, and operation of the year-long Institute.

2. Managers must adhere to the project guidelines as described in the NTTI Planning Guide.

3. The local project must be identified as "The National Teacher Training Institute, a partnership of [station name], Thirteen/WNET New York, Cisco Systems and the GE Foundation." All lessons and project materials must include the NTTI logo and national partner credits. NTTI lessons are co-branded with your station name and logo.

Creating and Running the Institute

1. Managers should recruit and train a minimum of eight master teachers to create a minimum of 20 new lessons in accordance with the NTTI lesson plan models.

2. Managers should recruit and train a minimum of 100 participants to attend the Institute. Days may be successive, spaced apart, or offered as half-day sessions in the academic year. Please see the 2003-2004 Planning Guide for additional information and requirements

3. Each site must create NTTI binders or CD-Roms that contain a minimum of 20 lessons developed for its Institute. These classroom resources must be distributed to the Institute participants. All NTTI lessons must remain branded as NTTI with its national funders' logos.

Publicity, Fundraising, Marketing

1. Each station's NTTI web page must be linked to the NTTI national Web site (www.thirteen.org/edonline/ntti).

2. Each NTTI site agrees to seek additional funding and/or in-kind donations from foundations, businesses, corporations, individuals, agencies, or other sources in order to supplement the project grant.

3. Each NTTI site must pursue local promotional and publicity opportunities for NTTI.

4. Site Managers are responsible for obtaining the right for EBC to use and authorize others to use the names, likenesses and biographical information of Institute participants for program publicity and institutional promotional purposes.

Communication with EBC

1. Managers must submit written status reports on or before November 7, 2003; Febraury 6, 2004; April 23, 2004; and August 6, 2004 to the Director of NTTI.

2. The Manager or an NTTI staff person must participate in NTTI's national monthly conference calls.

3. Managers must disseminate and collect project evaluations to workshop participants before, during and after the Institute events. These must be submitted to EBC.

4. Managers must submit three copies of your NTTI binder to EBC immediately following your event. In addition, lessons must be available in an acceptable digital format so that they can by used online by EBC.