Describes an award-winning program that integrates art throughout every stage of the writing process. Suggests that the program provides an alternative pathway into writing for children with diverse learning styles. Discusses research supporting the effectiveness of the program. (RS)

An art educator motivates his elementary students by developing their strong personal identification with each of 30 projects, introducing them to architecture. The author describes a few of these projects and how students benefit. (RK)

Seventy-six Fort Lauderdale third, fourth, and fifth graders spent an entire day researching, measuring, comparing, and creating fantasies about feet. This article describes "Foot Day" and presents the activity sheets used by the students. (Author/SJL)

Describes a comprehension strategies instruction program called Students Achieving Independent Learning (SAIL). Relates the program to reader response and transactional theories of reading. Shows how the program works in one school system. Compares SAIL with basal series instruction programs. (HB)

"Tall Tales on Tour" consists of a mobile unit of books, posters, puppets, plays, videos, teachers' guides and other resources designed to kindle enthusiasm and love for tall tales in students in grades 3-8 and to establish links with rural Washington County, Maine, schools. The program consists of three main components: (1) immersing…

To create a feeling of school unity and to reinforce the concept of human interdependence, the teachers of Friends' Central School planned Project Terra, a six-week school-wide activity. With the school viewed as a mythical planet, classes designed their own cultures and interacted as nations. (SJL)

The middle school program emerged against a backdrop of criticism, awareness of changing educational necessities and values, and new insights into the needs of the middle range of the student population. The precocity of youth mixed with the pseudo-sophistication of adulthood gives the middle school its reason for existence--the…

A project developed, delivered, and evaluated a science inservice program for K-8 teachers of hearing impaired children. Twenty-five participants were selected for this project from a pool of 200 licensed hearing impaired teachers in the State of Indiana. The inservice program included a 5-day summer session and two follow-up workshops during the…

An instructional model is described for using television production and television viewing as subject matter to integrate the development of communication competence in the language arts. The theoretical background of the model is explained, as is the application of the model in a pilot demonstration study. A sample usit is offered, with 11…

This paper provides an overview of the Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (CIRC) program, a comprehensive approach to reading and writing instruction for grades K-8, as well as its Spanish adaptation, Bilingual Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (BCIRC). The program's goal is to improve student achievement in reading,…

This federally funded exemplary career education project involved 35 Mini-Grant programs conducted within 24 elementary and middle schools in the Albuquerque Public Schools. Project highlights are described, noting the favorable impact of innovative career awareness activities upon disadvantaged Indian students, their parents, and the community.…

The implementation guide is for the Learning Experiences in Technology Project (Project LET), in which teachers utilize the tools, materials, and processes of technology in relating traditional studies in a more concrete manner to the development of career awareness in grades K-6. Learning by doing is the theme ofthe project which seeks to improve…

The Success for All elementary school restructuring program attempts to ensure that all students in high poverty schools will be at or near grade level in basic skills by the end of the third grade and will maintain or better that standing through the rest of their elementary school careers. The program emphasizes prevention and early…