Reports on one school-university partnership that used S. Covey's "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" as a framework for initiating and sustaining teacher-education reform in an elementary school. Discusses how the collaboration overcame a difficult start involving distrust of the university. Shows how the project illuminates three…

Describes DELTA (Design for Excellence: Linking Teaching and Achievement), a program that directs reform efforts toward teachers in greater Los Angeles. Notes the primary goal is to link public schools and higher education in a collaborative effort to reform three key areas: teacher preparation; support for new teachers; and ongoing, progressive…

Outlines a collaboration for school improvement between Cape Girardeau Public Schools and Southeast Missouri State University. Asserts that the development of closer working relationships among universities, colleges, and local schools can promote a supportive environment for all and expand each faculty's experience, knowledge, and skill in…

Rejects the notion that writing and teaching must be created in colleges and then flow down to high schools. Uses the South Basin Writing Project as a model for change, showing how knowledge about writing and teaching can be generated by practitioners. Notes how the forces of tradition and expediency often prevent this knowledge from resulting in…

Reports on the impact of being in a Professional Development Schools network on seven Utah schools (four elementary, one junior, and two high schools) over five years. Identifies and analyzes the catalysts that promoted teachers' professional development and school reform, as well as the road blocks to effective reform. (SR)