Let's talk protocols!
Info from IPA here

Nice prezi from Hualalai here

Good Resource from National School Reform Faculty here:

Great Resource for 21st Century Education:
Classroom20
Future of education

These sites have loads information, weekly webinars with leading experts, etc!

Here is an interesting grant possibility to design a module for middle school students to improve their ability to successfully learn core content standards. Information about the script is here: http://nextgenlearning.org/

they do give two examples of the kind of projects they are looking for:
 A modularized online course of study that may be composed and sequenced with a variety of other materials and deployed in a variety of learning environments. Note: there is not an expectation that an entire year-long course of study be completed.
 An online, collaborative environment in which students are asked to practice and show mastery of literacy Common Core Standards within the context of solving biology problems.