"Teacher-Powered Practices: How teacher teams collaboratively lead and create student-centered schools" focuses on how innovative teachers are radically changing the ways schools are designed and run. The how here are the common practices, structures, and processes teacher-powered teams design and use daily. The guide identifies nine…

At this high school, the teaching faculty was increased by one third by using student teachers from nearby Pennsylvania State. The student teaching program, when evaluated against a single criterion -- the performance of students -- appears successful. It would seem that this innovation, adapted from a time-honored approach for the training of…

This is a collection of reports on innovative practices in student teaching programs. The label "innovative" is justified on the basis of the investigation's scope. Identification of innovative student teaching practices was accomplished by contacting chief state school officers, chairmen and members of state commissions on teacher…