This paper describes Project THREADS (Transformations for Humanistic and Responsive Education for All Deaf Students), a program to develop a model for increasing the multicultural competence of inservice teachers of the deaf. Project THREADS is designed to facilitate changes in individual teachers and changes in their institutions while working to develop best practice multicultural education models. Twenty-two teachers in teams from 10 schools and programs for the deaf are being trained over the course of 3 years. The project provides a 1-week summer institute each year at Gallaudet University (District of Columbia), and a distance education component throughout the school year for academic credit. The 10 sites are geographically representative and include day schools, residential schools, and public school classes. The first summer institute introduced the teachers to theories of multicultural education and implications for deaf education. The second THREADS institute examined constructivist versus traditional curriculum, interdisciplinary thematic teaching, materials evaluation, and identification of resources. Practical application of theory within the classroom is emphasized as is use of the same constructivist methods to train the teachers that the teachers themselves are encouraged to use with their students. (DB) students. (DB)