Use professional organizations
 Ideas for drawing on technology resources made for teachers in your discipline
 
Ideas from Chicago and Detroit:
Best Practice High School teacher attends trainings for science projects.  

Von Steuben Center teacher learns new approaches to teaching writing.
Resources from other areas:

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse: curriculum resources in math and science
http://www.enc.org/resources

National Council of Teachers of English
http://www.ncte.org/teach

National Council of Teachers of Social Studies
http://www.ncss.org/resources/home.html

Schools of California Online Resources for Education
http://www.score.k12.ca.us
Connect with ongoing projects
Art Griffin, Best Practice High School's physics teacher, is active in science education reform efforts in the Chicago area and is committed to finding ways to involve students in real science. He is an active member of the science education community, having participated in training not only for Fermi Lab's Project ARISE but also for Modeling Physics at Arizona State University, the "Hands-on Feet-on Science" program offered by Columbia College for Chicago Public Schools, and the Hands-On Universe Project of University of California, Berkeley's Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Griffin himself has trained teachers through the Adler Planetarium, both in the Chicago area and in Baton Rouge.
 
Learn new methods
Rather than following the more common strategy of developing an all-purpose computer lab with a technology-oriented lab director to maintain the computers and network, Von Steuben Center's principal invited English teacher Lucja Kowalski (now the English Department chair) to develop a computer-based center for teaching writing.

 
Kowalski was initially unenthusiastic about having responsibility for computers, but she was interested in promoting the process-based approach to teaching writing that she had studied. "Then the opportunity came when this room was available on the fourth floor, and the department chair said, 'Lucy, would you like to look into this?' And I said, 'I don't want to deal with computers. I like the idea of what computers can do, but I really want to work with students. I don't want to sit with machines.' I was a little afraid of it. And then I investigated it, and I said, 'I'll try it.'"