The Eastern Pennsylvania Lead Teacher Consortium, a regional network for professional development of vocational teachers, demonstrates that lead teachers' work must be tied to student learning outcomes, ideas and practices must be communicated to building-level staff, and regional consortia need a dedicated funding source. (SK)

To increase the supply of modularized instructional materials to meet the need for preservice and/or inservice education of professional vocational educators, the National Center for Research in Vocational Education and seven interested states organized in 1978 a Consortium for the Development of Professional Materials for Vocational Education. To…