The purpose of the Middle-Management Center (M-MC) is to engage educational organizations, individuals, and groups in the metropolitan New Orleans area in simultaneous research and action to facilitate the development of more productive and responsive schooling while focusing on the problemsolving processes and practices of management. The center has successfully initiated an operational model that engages the school middle managers. By using the research-action context, M-MC is able to continually become more definitive and precise in its goals and participant roles, to efficiently utilize and respond to member capabilities and needs, to restructure and time-manage more efficiently, and to generally adapt to a dynamic educational environment. (Author/WM)