The Professional Partnership Program, which began at the Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey, was intended to foster professional growth and more effective teaching. Describes the programs that teachers there participated in and what they learned from those programs. (Author/RK)

An overview of the articles appearing in this issue of "The Journal of School Health" is presented. (JD)

Describes a simulation game, IDIOTS (Instructional Development in Ordinary Teaching Situations), which is designed to acquaint potential instructional developers, faculty and/or students, with the various aspects of instructional development. (RAO)

Dr. Richey, Superintendent of the Pascagoula Municipal Separate School District, has not only been a catalyst for change in the local district, but has also continued to forcefully influence public education on state and national levels. He has inspired his total staff to seek maximum personal effort and to secure "quality education for…

Provides an overview of a team approach to pupil personnel services that allows the counselor to function as a generalist in guidance and counseling. (Author/IRT)

Describes an in-depth unit in investigative reporting taught to high school students in a first-year journalism course. Discusses reports written by teams of students and outlines positive results of the unit. (GW)

The emotions and physical interaction in many sports have a great deal in common with the experiences in a love relationship. (JD)

Investigates the relationship between the length of a football coach's tenure and his effectiveness. (Author/RK)

The authors introduce the concept of group facilitation skills for managers. They describe a framework that will help managers recognize group process problems, diagnose underlying causes of group problems, and consider how to take the group past its problems. (Author/CH)

The study observed the procedures used by an interdisciplinary incest treatment team over a 15-month period. Decision making was characterized by multiple observations of family members by multiple observers in multiple settings over time, analogous to procedures used in social research to establish reliability and validity. (Author/DB)

Describes Duval County Public Schools' (Jacksonville, Florida) approach to addressing causes and symptoms of academic underachievement by Blacks and disadvantaged students. The project involved establishing a baseline testing program, observing symptoms, and treating underachievement problems by prescribing lifestyle changes and establishing a…

The collaborative school provides a climate and a structure that encourage teachers to work together with the principal and other administrators toward school improvement and professional growth. (Author)

Cooperative learning focuses group activity on preparing all members to succeed on individual assessments. Research findings show significantly greater achievement for the cooperatively taught class. Describes the elements of two comprehensive cooperative methods and proposes a model of a cooperative elementary school. (MLF)

A training model for prospective teachers of cooperative learning involves teachers creating a cooperative classroom for themselves in a workshop setting. The model combines experience, perception, cognition, and behavior. (MLF)

As the leaders of the construction team, owners should (1) become knowledgeable about the construction industry, or hire someone who has that knowledge; (2) use familiar, tested, and fair contract forms; and (3) hire the most competent architects and engineers, and pay them fairly. (MLF)