The Senior Aide Volunteer Educator (SAVE) project in Tigard School District 23J, Tigard, Oregon, was initiated in 1971 under ESEA Title III funding to provide additional instruction to selected students from the first six grades in the areas of reading, mathematics, and elementary science. Examples from this project are often cited, but this adopter's guide attempts to describe the requirements of a senior aide program in generic terms, replicable in any community. In Sections I through III, "Deciding Whether to Adopt the Model,""Determining Program Feasibility," and "Planning Program Operation," the guide suggests the steps necessary to make a decision to adopt the program and to plan it on paper. The section entitled, "Founding the Program," suggests procedures to follow in seeking district and community support and sponsorship. In the section "Implementing the Program," the guide suggests procedures for initiating and conducting routine operations at both the administrative and instructional levels. This is followed by a section suggesting an evaluation framework. The appendix contains a bibliography of materials related to program operation, program material inventories, the tables of contents, and sample pages from the SAVE project's instructional workbooks, and a number of program evaluation forms that may serve as useful resources for adopters. This guide is one in a series of adopter's guides of "Promising Practices in Oregon," instructional or management programs that the relevant school personnel think innovative, effective, and transportable. (MB)