This report underlines the need for cooperation between the business world and educators in an effort to upgrade the quality of educational outcomes. It describes a partnership formed between the senior program associate of COGNET, an area business, and Hardy Elementary School, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The result was a COGNET Summer Institute during the summer of 1992. All of the K-5 grade teachers were trained to utilize the COGNET Instructional Model to provide mediated learning experiences for the students in the classrooms to increase their learning skills. Intervention ideas developed were: (1) teacher developed school-wide goals; (2) literature based reading instruction; (3) an integrated curriculum; (4) daily school-wide Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) Program; (5) recreational reading programs; (6) emphasis on global learning; and (7) highly visible principals. The summer institute, funded in part by McKee Foods Corporation and Chapter 1 funds, provided all participating teachers with a stipend for attending the professional staff development, and made it possible for Hardy Elementary School to receive a portion of the Follow Through Federal Grant awarded to Chattanooga Public Schools. These funds allowed COGNET initially to be implemented in grades K-5. (AA)