Cooperative efforts, educational objectives, educational planning, school organization, and administrative organization are important in achieving unity within a school's vocational agriculture program. (EA)

Increased attention to inservice teacher education needs has isolated four major structural dimensions associated with the design of effective inservice programs. The INSERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION REPORT I: ISSUES TO FACE (ISTE) explicates an early model of program construction, utilizing these four concepts. Governance, concerned with the…

The role to be played by higher education faculties in statewide decision making was addressed at the 1972 Minnesota Intercollegiate Faculty Conference. Conference speakers both pointed up a paucity of existing proposals for significant faculty participation and suggested that responsibility for development of such proposals lies with faculties…

Special Education administrators (N=33) responded to a comprehensive survey on their use of microcomputers. Decision-making policies and practices indicated high levels of cooperation between special and regular education programs in acquiring hardware and software and in providing teacher training. Implications for subsequent directions for…

Joint rural school-community projects are best sustained when developed by a collaborative group. The two basic dimensions of working collaboratively are team building and team planning. Critical elements of the collaborative process are: 1) community readiness--an assessment of community readiness should be performed, taking into consideration…

A vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers discusses the broader aspects of industry involvement with public education, listing advantages to having industry-education coordinators on school staffs and industry-education councils to provide schooling relevant to employer needs. (MF)

A health education coordinating council can help all those involved in health education in a given geographic area to coordinate, supplement, and intensify their efforts. (MB)

Outlines developments that took place in teaching agriculture at the freshman-sophomore level and the concept of integrated courses in agriculture. Future directions include: more emphasis on the impact of technology, case-study forms, and efforts to shift the balance from content to concept. (Author/RT)

Evaluation results are reported for a gifted education consortium, involving seven rural school districts and Purdue University's Gifted Education Resource Institute. Positive change occurred in teachers and other school personnel in knowledge level and attitudes toward gifted education. High satisfaction with goal achievement was indicated by…

Describes the creation of the East Valley Think Tank, a consortium of Phoenix, Arizona, primary and secondary school districts, community and vocational colleges, and Arizona State University designed to establish an educational center at Williams Air Force Base following its closure. Provides suggestions for creating a consortium. (MAB)

Discusses building collaborative teacher-librarian relationships, focusing on team-building experiences at Lincoln Elementary School (Hawaii). Highlights include: building trust; cooperating on curriculum; creating leadership teams; planning interactive meetings; valuing strengths; varying roles and responsibilities; and viewing planning as…

This study took an in-depth look at the collaborative work of teachers engaged in curriculum restructuring, and explored how individual teachers' perceptions inform and are informed by such collaboration. The objective of the study was to explore how teachers' individual knowledge, experiences, and curriculum orientations affected their…

As school districts move toward collaborative school improvement, reform leaders recognize that most school personnel have had little training or experience working within schools on organized decision making teams. Teachers and staff members are being required to negotiate with each other in the process of making organizational decisions--a new…

Effective school restructuring requires teacher motivation and action to transform knowledge about change into reality. This paper defines and describes what is meant by "professional learning community"; describes what happens when a school staff studies, works, plans, and takes action collectively on behalf of increased learning for…

This volume offers a variety of examples of long-term collaborative efforts within schools that began with external funding. Articles include: (1) "Lessons from a Long-Term Collaboration," (Lindsay M. Wright and Rona Middleberg); (2) "Creating Structural Change: Best Practices," (Janet E. Lieberman); (3) "An Urban Intervention That Works: The…