Sharing Educational Success: A Guide for Adoption/Adaption.

A critical task facing educators is that of uniting those schools that have need of a successful solution to a specific problem with those schools that already have produced such a solution. This guide suggests how practitioners might pursue the problem of sharing educational success in their State. Included are a brief summary of how adoption/adaption might occur, observations on the roles and functions of the originator of a successful practice (the "producer") and the potential "consumer" who has need of a solution to an identified educational need, as well as the individual or agency (the "linker") that brings the two together. The process defined for the sharing of education success is referred to as the "Producer-Linker-Consumer" (P-L-C) strategy. The P-L-C strategy is not intended to be a model, but rather a starting place or a generator of ideas for the practitioner. More help is available from several State educational agencies that are willing to share materials, guides, and other documents about their dissemination/diffusion systems. These tools and agencies are listed in the appendix. (Author/JF)