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)

With teachers' centers in Britain taking the lead, centers have been created in many other countries including the U.S. This movement may now provide teachers with the opportunity to take charge of the curricula they teach and of their own professional destiny. (Author/GC)