Phase 9, a teacher-designed, classroom centered model, takes teachers through a nine-step process that results in the development of integrated instructional units. Teams of teachers come to an intensive five-day training with lessons they know work well with students. In interdisciplinary teams, they fold technology, state and national standards, multiple subject areas, and constructivist pedagogy into their multi-lesson units. At week's end, they post them on the Solution Site. From its inception, the project has focused on time, tools, and strategies. Teachers need time to mold their everyday lessons into technology-rich integrated units of instruction. They need the tools necessary to use these units in the classroom. And they need strategies, offered throughout the week of professional development, to help them to put all of this together. The article concludes that Phase 9s for teachers, by teachers' philosophy makes the classroom instructor the architect who crafts the learning process. The quality of such instructional design strategies is a direct result of the nine-step process. This is a process that assists teachers not only in developing but also in taking ownership of curriculum content. The by-product by default becomes enhanced student learning, rich in the content standards embedded throughout each lesson unit.