It is estimated that 70% of incarcerated youth struggle with mental health challenges (Karger & Currie-Rubin, 2013) in addition to other academic impairments which, in turn, substantially increases their likelihood to reoffend postrelease (Yampolskaya & Chuang, 2012). Consequently, these youth would likely benefit from therapeutic…

This article presents the Pilgrimage Model as a template for educators wishing to lead students on site-specific studies of engaged learning. During the 2015-2016 academic year, a group of Georgetown University students, faculty, and staff pursued the Pilgrimage Project, a year-long pedagogical experiment in interdisciplinary education and…

In this article, we describe the campus visit we organized for Latina girls (grades 6-12) that participated in Somos Escritoras/We Are Writers. Somos Escritoras is a creative space that invites Latina girls to explore their lives and examine their worlds through art, writing, and theater. We focus on the writing marathon we designed for our visit…

Art classes are often sites for students with academic, social, emotional, and/or behavioral problems. Some school administrators and counselors recognize the benefits of art education and place students at-risk in art education classes. Most often art therapy is not part of coursework within art education programs, so K-12 educators have minimal…

This article describes an authentic, social, inclusive writing activity for young children (preschool to second grade) with and without disabilities engaged in what the second and third authors called "Big Paper." In addition to detailing the activity, recommendations for maximizing the participation of all students and monitoring…

This paper presents a rationale for utilizing HPS to teach physics and the NoS developed in the course of a project funded by the European Union. A core feature of this approach is formed by the development of historical case studies for the use in lessons. Furthermore, the learners' perspectives are explicitly taken into account. Teaching methods…

InnerSpark is a residential summer arts training program for high school students established by the California State Legislature (California Education Code sections 8950-8957) in order to make it possible for "artistically gifted and talented students, broadly representative of the socioeconomic and ethnic diversity of the state, to receive…

Notes that living creatively and fluidly often depends on an adult's ability to play. Describes a workshop designed to enhance awareness of the importance of play for adults and to provide imaging strategies helpful to therapists, teachers, and poets. (RS)

Describes a program that used art and poetry therapy with terminally ill patients. Presents the creative writings of two patients. (SR)

The article describes the development of creative writing ability in the three- to seven-year-old gifted child. Examples of the writing of this age group are used to illustrate the stages in the development of writing ability. (PHR)

Describes a school-wide creative writing activity for grades 1-9 in which students wrote about their teacher's (fictional) early life. (SR)

Offers an overview of the initial 8 weeks of a creative-writing pilot project which was an adjunct to the already established vocational therapy for adults with mental illness. Discusses how the program attempted to address the psychosocial needs of outpatients living independently in the community, the majority of whom had not been exposed to a…

This is the final report of the Using the Second "R" Project, which was designed to provide elementary school teachers in the Cleveland (Ohio) public schools with a kit of instructional strategies and evaluative instruments for use in the development of their students' creative writing skills. The report contains a narrative account of the needs…

Describes the Abbott Union School and its program for traumatized and neglected adolescents. Reproduces a short novel written by one of the students. (CRH)

Discusses Alaska's Centralized Correspondence Studies program which offers arts electives to the state's rural, isolated, secondary students. Examples of student art work and poetry are included. (SJL)