Teachers meet monthly to discuss schoolwide and subschool issues, and representatives of the three schools meet monthly to address concerns and issues. A special committee including teachers, assistants, and key staff meets monthly with the principal to offer feedback and contribute to educational decisions. Staff are encouraged to attend classes at area colleges, attend workshops, and visit other schools. Within the school, teachers have time to visit colleagues' classrooms and discuss curriculum issues, and they attend workshops and weekend seminars to explore selected topics in depth. A full-time instructional resource teacher at the school serves as a mentor and coordinates staff development, curricula, schoolwide activities, and two resource rooms.
Staff development supports instructional priorities identified by the principal and teachers.
The parent leader of the teacher assistant group also contributes to a schoolwide advisory committee. Evidence of Success G anado students have shown overall achievement gains, although not always at the rate sought by school planners. It has regularly been given the Arizona Quality Programs Award for excellence in academics and administration. In 1990, two of its programs, Project Success and Taking Turns, won Exemplary Curriculum Program Awards from the Arizona Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and in 1993 Ganado was named Arizona's Exemplary Reading Program by the Arizona Reading Association.