Although bus drivers, teacher assistants, secretaries, hall aides, and cafeteria workers are vital to the school organization, they are often overlooked entirely by inservice training and staff development planners. This article describes a Long Island (New York) school district's successful staff development day exclusively for nonteaching…

Many school districts are acknowledging staff development's dismal record. Inservice programs traditionally operate on a deficit training model, promote awareness without classroom strategies, and are offered by traveling "experts." Teachers need time and opportunity to direct their own professional development program and "mess…

A staff development program in a Vermont school district relies heavily on teachers' self-appraisal and their desire for self-improvement. To assist teachers, the district has invited university instructors to teach graduate-level courses in the schools, hired consultants to speak, arranged workshops, and organized summer institutes. (MLF)