The “School of Rock: Exploring Ocean Cores at the Gulf Coast Repository” provided eighteen educators with opportunities to learn firsthand about the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum and other discoveries revealed through ocean drilling. Organized by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program United States Implementing Organization (IODP-USIO), teachers worked with scientists from Texas A & M, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, James Madison University, and other institutions actively engaged in IODP research, along with the USIO Education Director and staff. The weeklong program resulted in production of new classroom instructional materials, some of which complement activities in DataStreme Ocean, Online Ocean Studies, and other AMS education programs. These and other educational materials based on IODP research are available at http://www.joilearning.org/. In 2005, IODP conducted the first “School of Rock” workshop aboard the IODP vessel JOIDES Resolution during a transit cruise. Information about this program and educational materials created by participants are available at http://www.joilearning.org/schoolofrock/. Since this vessel in undergoing a major refitting, the 2007 School of Rock program focused on discoveries made in laboratories and their connection with field-based research. The workshop began with an overview presentation about ocean drilling by IODP/TAMU Director Jeff Fox. Over the next week, research scientists and JOI Learning staff members provided introductions to plate tectonics, core examination, microfossils, and stratigraphy using paleontologic and magnetic data. Discussion about the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum core data preceded a field trip to Paleocene/Eocene boundary locations at three locations around Bastrop, Texas. Participants also examined data from IODP research about Antarctic climate data and history of glacial lakes. Connections will also be made with pertinent geological and paleoclimatological topics included in DataStreme Ocean, Online Ocean Studies, and other AMS Education Program components.