The Detroit Center for Professional Growth and Development provides a model for teacher controlled teachers' centers. The center's success, in terms of resource provision and teacher involvement, could serve as a reminder to other centers that have been reluctant to give control to teachers. (Author/GC)

During the early decades of the twentieth century, there was a gradual shift from educational sports as a forum for non-risk individual participation to team and coach-centered endeavors where an emphasis on winning existed. That shift reflected social changes in the United States as American society itself became highly structured and organized…