The State of Texas backs its commitment to quality inservice education by providing extra salary for ten teacher inservice days per year and by providing a network of Regional Education Service Centers offering cooperative multidistrict inservice programs. Regionally planned inservice, cooperatively financed, and coordinated by the Education Service Center, results in significant economies. The twenty regional centers facilitate the implementation of new practices and make available a nonregulatory source of helpful coordination for local schools. The key is cooperation through communication and coordination, with a practical sharing of goals, facilities, and financing at local, state, and federal levels. Along the way, we're disseminating innovative concepts and relevant practices whose present uses are exciting but whose ultimate effects may require generations to measure and appreciate. Region XII Education Service Center, spawned in creativity and nourished through cooperation, is providing educational services, learning and teaching materials, and pertinent information and technology for flexible practices adaptable to local and regional conditions anywhere in the twelve-county Central Texas area. Whether an administrator needs help in setting up a new program for the handicapped, a simulator for a driver education program or a