Partnering With Researchers

I have been thinking a lot lately about the large gap that exists between Polar scientists and teachers.  Scientists that I have met and spoken with often do not know where to start to engage teachers and teachers are in need of content knowledge, speakers, or data sets to accompany lessons they already have designed and want to push forward with.  I am interested in hearing from scientists or teachers who have established partnerships about the strategies they used to find one another and about the work that has come out of working together as a result.