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SchoolTechnology and a school-university partnership enabled high school faculty members to implement the Senior Project. Matt Rickey and Glenda Moss describe the process of change, the project requirements, and the learning that resulted for students and faculty. I like to think of East Noble High School (ENHS) as a high-tech rural school. We have one of the top tech departments in the state-four computer labs, two designed for research and composition; student access to email and the Internet; and programs such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. In this blue-collar factory and farming area, we are rural but we are not isolated or void of technology. Writing grants and reaching out to philanthropists and a neighboring university helped us to integrate technology and research into our rural context to successfully implement the Senior Project in our school in 2001.Like other schools, ENHS is experiencing the growing pains of change as we work to improve thinking and writing skills in a student population with a range of abilities. The Senior Project helps us meet these goals. However, the implementation would have been much more difficult, if not impossible, without the learning partnership created between ENHS and the School of Education at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW).

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