This handbook is intended to provide school officials and members of school councils and advisory committees with helpful information about different ways to plan for school improvement. It focuses on the process of planning, rather than on the process of writing a plan, and therefore does not include any planning forms or instructions for using such forms. Separate sections of the handbook examine the planning process in general, describe three different planning models that are applicable to schools, and discuss what school improvement is and what the planning process should accomplish. Most of the handbook describes in turn the three planning models, which include the component development model, the integrated program model, and the u-do-it model. (JG)