Involving Educators: Six Ideas That Work. An Occasional Paper.

This paper examines the structure and function of CFK Ltd., an educational foundation devoted to school improvement using humanizing processes. Six ideas were developed to guide the foundation: Encourage potential clientele to determine the Foundation's areas of interest; given identified problem areas, encourage interested school administrators to develop a diversity of selected programs within their school districts; form a national collegial team of educational leaders to foster sharing processes among the school districts and professional-personal relationships among these leaders; encourage this group to determine the Foundation's practices and yearly plan of programs, services, and activities; employ a small staff to serve as a catalyst for this team; and after a period of time, dissolve the Foundation's relationship so that the involved educators can themselves become the catalyst. (Author/WM)