The best way for principals to become familiar with student writing and the students themselves is to read what students write, think about it, and respond to it. Requiring high school seniors to write a paper for the principal is one way to accomplish this objective. Principals would learn a great deal. Includes six references. (MLH)

Describes how students can write and assemble monthly classroom calendar books. (MM)

Provides 10 tips for planning successful conferences for high school students who want to do it on their own. Tips are based on the experience of the author who coordinated the fourth annual Student Provincial Environment Conference in 1994. (LZ)

Describes a class project in which students conduct a "communication audit" or assessment of an off-campus organization, providing students with opportunities to explore, examine, monitor, and evaluate communication in a practical way. Discusses grading, beginning the class, contacting clients, instrumentation and procedures, costs, and…

The Parnassus Program at an Australian school matches gifted students with mentors who guide them in conducting subject-oriented projects and help them learn research techniques and data interpretation. Students acquire specialized skills and increase self-confidence and sense of responsibility. (SK)

Vocational student organizations provide opportunities for students to develop leadership skills by taking risks and accepting responsibility. Advisers should not only develop these qualities in students, but they should let prospective employers know about them. (SK)

Describes how a still video camera can enhance elementary students' classroom presentations by transferring video images to a computer, a television monitor, or a standard videotape. The article presents suggestions for conducting still video projects involving historical research and local geography. (SM)

Family-and-consumer-sciences students worked with community agencies and residents to prepare an exhibit of family photographs. The project supported development of students' cross-cultural competence and professional skills. (SK)

A Texas science academy offers a technology course in which the entire grade is based solely on a single project. Grades are based on student-made products, documentation of how they were created, and presentations before a panel of engineers. (Author/JOW)

Describes the Global Perspective Program of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) which addresses the problem of preparing engineers for global careers through a project program. Discusses developing the project programs in Asia, working with Bangkok's recycling needs, and chemical process safety in Taiwan. (JRH)

Discusses group projects in distance learning, describes factors affecting the successful completion of group projects, and considers whether agent technology (self-contained, concurrently executing software processes that encapsulate the current state in terms of knowledge) is able to support students doing group projects. (LRW)

Very young students can begin to use technology to organize and analyze their data in sophisticated ways. The National Center for Education Statistics (2005) reported that 67% of nursery school students and 80% of kindergarten students were using computers in 2003. By the early elementary grades, some of these students are ready to begin using…

Four years ago, teacher staffing at the author's grade 6-8 middle school was reorganized so that the library could be open and staffed with a teacher-librarian for the entire school day. However, this required that the library program be part of the delivery of preparation time for the staff with some classes time-tabled with one 50-minute period…

Sophomore year is an intense introduction into the theories and skills germane to the profession of Industrial Design. Design projects will address one to three design elements at a time to promote understanding and manipulation of concepts, such as: (a) theories of two and three dimensional form development are practiced and presented; (b)…

A classroom demonstration is described that shows a method for detecting nonmagnetic metals. The demonstration uses the simple and sensitive beat oscillations technique and employs off-the-shelf equipment usually available in most physics laboratories. More than 80 years ago, the beat oscillations technique was used to design the first electronic…