Describes the outcomes from a poetry workshop for teachers, showing how teaching poetry helped the instructor's writing of poetry. Encourages teachers to become more interested in their own writing. (RL)

Describes the rationale for implementing and continuing artists/writers-in-the-schools programs. Emphasizes the lifelong value of creative expression and imagination. (RL)

Describes Image-Making, a workshop in creative bookmaking based on a series of simple, carefully structured, parallel verbal and visual activities. Explains how each teacher and student designed and created an individual book (of his or her own poems and visual images) and a large communal book. (MG)

Describes a successful program of "contemplation writing," in which, through a counting technique and a music technique, children learn how to contemplate their inner experience, write about it, and discuss it. (SR)