Based on the final two years' developmental effort of the Colorado Individualized Instruction Consortium Project (CIICP), a series of recommendations are made dealing with future curriculum development. Three main goals of CIICP are delineated: develop Learning Activity Packets (LAP), design multimedia for each LAP training instructor to use in…

The consortium/teacher education council approach to collaboration in teacher education centers seems to close the gap between token school involvement and actual involvement. (Author)

"Miracle" is a word you would expect to hear from people familiar with the Assumption Catholic School story--but don?t wait for it. More likely you will hear a name: Mary Anne Stanton. In just more than five years, Stanton has led Assumption and 12 other Catholic schools from high-poverty Washington, D.C. neighborhoods into a…

A national study of rural superintendents identified several fiscal practices to maximize resources, including seeking bids and comparison pricing for purchases, paying bills promptly where discounts are available, employing aggressive energy conservation measures, joining a regional service agency to provide services and programs, and increasing…

Discusses how higher education consortia are forming K-12 partnerships and alliances that are linking with individual public schools and their school systems. Offers the examples of the Hartford Consortium for Higher Education and Massachusetts' Five Colleges, Incorporated. Includes a list with Web sites addresses of such consortium partnerships.…

To explore group maturation in an educational setting, the policy board of a teacher center consortium was studied over a year, using ethnographic research methods. The group proceeded through various development stages, but not according to the predicted pattern, and failed to reach maturity. Maturation was disrupted by the director's dominating…

Research on the impact of professional development and mentoring in the activities of K-12 classroom teachers and their positive effects has been widely documented (Borko, Davinroy, Bliem, & Cumbo, 2000; Broaddus & Bloodgood, 1999; Lyons, 1991; Richardson, 1999). However, comparatively little is known about the effect of professional development…

The development, goals, and procedures of the Oregon Mathematics Education Council are described. With the support of the National Science Foundation, this consortium of school and college educational associations, state representatives, and business leaders developed a system to deal with the mathematical needs of the state. (SD)

These four annual reports detail Indiana's efforts to enhance computer literacy for teachers and assist in computer instruction in the schools. The consortium was given the responsibility by 1983 legislation to establish regional clearinghouses for computer instruction information, coordinate teacher training in computer instruction skills, and…

This paper considers the growing trend of collaboration among school districts, addressing the national trend in general and examining the perspective of and the trends in Mississippi in particular. The trend in Mississippi is a natural outgrowth of the reform movement in the state and will probably continue on both a formal and an informal basis…

This issue of the newsletter of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is devoted to reports by seven members of the AAAS Consortium of Regional Environmental Education Councils, as well as other miscellaneous environmental news. Each report includes information on the progress of environmental education in that region and…

This publication consists of a number of papers that discuss the development, implementation, and evaluation of efforts to integrate general and special education administration. The publication deals primarily with the work of the General-Special Education Administration Consortium (GSEAC), a long-term cooperative effort involving 25 higher…

A group of school districts in Western Oregon has developed a goal-based improvement model that provides teachers and administrators with a common information base. (Author)

Describes consortium consisting of state agency, private corporation, urban board of education, teacher union, and local university. Their common goal was an effective in-service education program for regular and special educators in mainstreaming. Planning, implementation, and evaluation are described. (TE)

Cooperative efforts of a research facility, university training programs and local public schools' speech services to hearing children that resulted in an experimental consortium of preservice and inservice education are described. A model for consortium development is discussed, as is the impact on personnel preparation and professional…