This report is organized around six chapters: (1) "How This Institute Came About"; (2) "Agenda"; (3) "Teacher Centering in 1976: The Real Experience"; (4) "Description of Teacher Centers"; (5) "Conference Reactions"; and (6) "Conference Directory of Participants." The first chapter discusses the sponsors, and organizers of the conference. Chapter two lists the events at the three-day convention in blocks of time giving titles, organizers, and short summaries of the individual group sessions. The third chapter provides a sampling of responses by approximately 250 of the conference participants to two questions: (1) What are your most important needs, the kinds of things you want to deal with during this conference, the issues and problems you want help with most now? and (2) What have been your greatest successes, your greatest "lessons learned", the experience you feel would be most helpful to share with others involved in centering? Chapter four privides brief descriptions of the purpose and activities of the teacher centers represented at the conference. Chapter five lists comments of participants, and chapter six is an alphabetical listing of those who attended the conference including affiliation and address. (DMT)