The first year of operation of a federally funded teacher center is described through a series of excerpts from the author's daily journal. This article focuses upon the practical aspects of implementing such a program while providing anecdotal accounts of the center's development. It offers a chronicle of the center's growth as well as its effects upon the teachers it came to serve during the first operational year, 1979–1980.
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