Online Collaborative Mentoring involves students, teachers and administrators from two school communities working together to improve educational outcomes identified in school charters. Participants work in collaborative partnerships for sustained periods to design, implement, monitor and evaluate projects, using information communication technologies such as video conferencing, email, distribution lists and WebPages. 
To date projects have explored Australian history, space, measurement and communication and initial research indicates that OCM engages and challenges students in the learning process, provides in-situ, sustained and authentic professional development for teachers and gives administrators a unique window into teaching and learning programs.

The challenge that lies in front of the cluster is to implement the Online Collaborative Mentoring process effectively and use the projects to begin bridging the transitional divide, creating a community that is fully engaged in the learning process. A numeracy/science project that brings together students, teachers, community and business experts, robots, dominos and video conferencing facilities in a program that will be implemented in 2003 and we look forward to many innovative projects being created during the Schools for Innovation and Excellence project as well as the development of an Online Collaborative Mentoring manual for other school communities to utilise.