The Greece Professional Learning Center, a New York State Teacher Center in Greece Central School District, works to ensure all district employees have access to high-quality professional learning that supports and facilitates their learning and ultimately advances student achievement. The center is an integral part of the district -- the state's…

This report describes the Teacher Resource and Computer Training Center Program that was enacted in 1984 by the New York State Education Department to provide systematic, ongoing professional development services for the state's teachers. It is a collaborative program involving teachers, school administrators, higher education representatives,…

This article reports the promising outcomes of a new mentoring program that helps novice teachers in New York City improve their quality of teaching and stem the number of those who leave. Calling the program "possibly the largest, most aggressive overhaul of teacher induction in the country," researchers of the New Teacher Center at the…

The West Genesee/Syracuse University Teaching Center consists of a three-person staff coordinating supervision of students, organization of staff development programs, and instructional and leadership responsibilities. Financial support is divided between the University and the school district. Tuition credits are offered by the University to the…

Teacher Centers began less than ten years ago in England. The English Teacher Centers are governed by the teachers themselves and are financially supported by the local educational authority. The various centers have two functions in common: (a) curriculum development; and (b) inservice education. In the United States, there are at least 4,500…

To meet information needs of teachers and administrators, the Nassau County Board of Cooperative Educational Services in New York State entered into an agreement with the Educational Services Group of Bibliographic Retrieval Services (BRS) which provides access to 30 national databases, and also created a "private" file or database…

A project was designed to demonstrate that the inservice education of adult basic education teachers could be individualized. To accomplish this objective, the project (1) developed a self-instructional training course for teachers of English as a Second Language to adults, (2) used these course materials as the basis for training (on an…

The author articulates how she helped create learning through a center for teaching and learning and other strategies.