The Miller-Unruh Basic Reading Act of 1965 expresses the commitment of the California State Legislature to helping children in the primary grades learn to read successfully. Specific objectives of the Act are the prevention and correction of reading disabilities at the earliest possible time in the educational career of the pupil. The long-range goal is the development of a reading program to meet each child's individual needs in the public schools. Realizing the importance of the principal's role in the success of such a program, the Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education sponsored inservice training programs to strengthen the elementary principal's supervisory responsibility to the Miller-unruh specialist teacher reading program. Each of the regional conferences focused on the following aspects: (1) common techniques for administering the program, (2) organizational patterns in the elementary schools, (3) current research findings that have implications for inservice training, (4) current trends in program development, (5) evaluation designs pertinent to academic and affective measures of reading achievement, and (6) program direction to be considered for the coming school year. This publication summarizes the presentations made by the session leaders at these conferences. (Author/TO)