C.1.g: Teacher Professional Development: The vehicle for training teachers to use the Virtual Sprout game is a hybrid approach and includes a Summer Teacher Academy (STA) serving as a kick off program with face to case and USC Distance Education Network (DEN) mediated, school site follow-up professional development in elementary school classrooms using a lesson study approach. Teacher academies have been recognized in the teacher education literature as a powerful and impactful way of comprehensively training and supporting teachers (Crowther, D.T., Vilá J.S., Fathman A.K., 2006).