What can 'Research' do in general to meet teachers' needs in the classroom? The European Commission provides hundreds of millions of euros through various calls to fund pure and applied research in the natural sciences, and frequently these multi-national, multi-million euro projects spend significant percentage of their budgets on outreach and education, but is the money spent where teachers need it to be spent? Scientists, after all, can be inventive about topics outside their expertise, and initiatives to date include taking teachers on research expeditions, beaming the expeditions themselves in the classrooms via the internet, organizing 'ask a scientist' networks and producing a broad range of educational resources through various media. Often such initiative find an audience and are appreciated, but more frequently than we would like they are produced with little pedagogical input from teachers and educators who know the target audience. The hard question is are such researcher-produced educational aids of sufficient value to teachers at large? Do they have a lasting impact? Or should (in an ideal world) the resources be directed in a different direction? In this FORUM, teachers' and educators' opinions are sought on what they would like to see researchers to do more on (or less of!) to meet the syllabus needs and help fresh science enter the classroom more easily. If resources were not an issue, how can research facilitate a teacher's day? Have your say.