Full-release mentoring programs draw successful mid-career teachers away from classrooms, with the inherent risk that they will decide not to return to classroom teaching, thus eliminating the opportunity for future students to benefit directly from their expertise. This might be enough for some districts, particularly those struggling to retain…

Presents ideas and strategies used by the Northwest Staff Development Center to attract and involve teachers and administrators in center activities. (Author)

Explores myths about British teacher centers. (IRT)

Describes a program in which resource teachers train other teachers in developing interpersonal skills that will foster better relationships among teachers, parents, and students of different racial and ethnic backgrounds. (Author/IRT)

Local physical facilities and self-improvement programs organized and run by teachers for purposes of upgrading educational performance. (Author)

The former director of the national Teacher Center Project outlines nine of the most widely recognized problems in the development of teacher centers across the U.S. He concludes that the centers have given teachers a sense of greater control over their inservice education. (Author/WD)

Defines teachers centers as physical facilities within a school where teachers can meet on a voluntary basis to share ideas related to their professional and their personal lives. Provides a how-to-do-it guide for teachers interested in organizing the community of learning and sharing that teachers centers make possible. (Author)

Describes a successful program in which an elementary school and a university cooperated in creating a new approach to the selection and supervision of student teachers. (IRT)

The consortium/teacher education council approach to collaboration in teacher education centers seems to close the gap between token school involvement and actual involvement. (Author)

Warns that successful transplantation of the British teacher center idea to America may involve a redistribution of power within the traditional educational structure. (Author/JH)

The program described involves the city school district, the university, the local community, and the teachers association. (IRT)