This document reports on a project undertaken to determine the feasibility of a periodic national survey of a sample of U.S. school districts to obtain information on the performance of the existing dissemination and utilization network for educational innovations. The first section of volume 1 describes the content and consequences of innovation, and the second section examines the innovation process. Of the 353 responses received, 346 (98 percent) reported at least one major innovation during the 1970-71 school year. The survey results indicate that the amount of innovative effort per pupil is dramatically and inversely related to size of district. Individualized instruction and team teaching were the innovation types cites most frequently as the most significant in 1970-71. There is a strong tendency for showcase innovations to be directed to the elementary level, with considerably less emphasis on senior high schools and very little attention paid to middle or junior high school years. Teachers are by far the highest participants in innovations, and internal resources generally received more usage than did external resources. The appendixes contain the survey questionnaire, letters to respondents, and background information on the characteristics of the sample. (Author/DN)