ABSTRACT
Catherine Lacey and Diane Wood were both concerned about how to bring everyone in the Network Faculty Development Committee (NFDC) back together again around the vision of the group, since they had not all met together since the previous February. The NFDC received a large number of applications to attend the institute, and some heads complained about which teachers from their schools the NFDC chose from the applications. After the faculty institute, the editorial board for the journal, which they named the Network Journal of Education (NJE), had a meeting at which time they reviewed all the articles that came in and planned the layout for the first volume. In mid-October, just two weeks before the Institute was to begin, there was a major earthquake in San Francisco and nearby parts of northern California. Diane experienced conflict at the October NFDC meeting and in dealing with the earthquake.
