One state curriculum guide too many produced the Principal's Advisory Council on School Improvement (PACSI), a Huntington, New York, principal's "kitchen cabinet" to handle curriculum overflow. In two years, PACSI developed three solutions: grade level objectives and suggested time allocations; monthly curriculum calendars; and…

To involve teachers in curriculum matters, an upstate New York principal formed an advisory committee on school improvement. The group of five dedicated teachers served as a sounding board, an information-gathering body, a goal-setting and policy-making body, and a decision-making partner. All decisions were eventually presented to the entire…