Schools are essentially human systems; without people they are nothing but wood, concrete, and paper. Yet, the people who make up schools -- professionals, parents, service personnel, and students -- often form into ineffective and poorly coordinated groups, much in the way that employees in the bureaucracies of industry and government become separated from one another. Rarely do the people in schools make a deliberate effort to examine their communication patterns or their organizational procedures. Organizational development (OD) offers a conceptualization and strategy for examining these activities. It enables the school to monitor and respond to the changing environment; and to find, maintain, and use the resources and ideas needed to respond. Through OD, a school can improve its self-renewing capabilities in improved communication and problemsolving processes, decisionmaking and meeting procedures, and the potential for collaboration. The school becomes self-renewing by experiencing learning-by-doing in the task group, skill training, new procedures, survey feedback, and group and intergroup exercises. In addition to describing organizational development, the publication outlines a sample organization development training sequence; and it lists individuals, programs, and references dealing with organization development in schools. (Artwork may reproduce poorly.) (Author/DN)