This document contains edited presentations given during a conference on teacher negotiations and solutions to impasse in Rhode Island. The principal speakers were Henry J. Nardone, chairman of the Elementary and Secondary Education Sub-Committee of the Board of Regents; Julius C. Michaelson, Attorney General for Rhode Island; and Dr. Peter Feuille, Assistant Professor of Organization and Human Resources at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Nardone discussed the Regents' ideas on impasse resolution, Michaelson discussed the current state legislation concerning teacher strikes and argued for the advantages of binding arbitration over strikes, and Dr. Feuille discussed a number of negotiation impasse resolution alternatives that are in use outside of Rhode Island. (IRT)