Home-school partnerships provide a strong support system. Besides encouraging parents, teachers, and students to work together for more effective learning and teaching, the system helps parents understand their emerging adolescents. A rural Pennsylvania middle school's "Steps to Success" program offers various activities involved with…

Native and nonnative Canadians participated in a series of workshops on reexamining 500 years of history and redefining Canada. Assumptions about history, spirituality, education, solidarity, and collective action have been challenged and processes of personal and social change set into motion. (SK)

Suggests that a special quality of reinforced learning can take place by use of the preshow workshop, which plants the seeds of thought and actions. Illustrates the method by discussing two practical but utterly different models for preshow workshops. (RS)

Evaluated innovative corporate-sponsored health care program for retired employees and their dependents. Program included multidisciplinary heath care team, care coordination and referral, and health promotion workshops. Of 111 participants, 95% reported that participation helped them maintain or improve their health through increased knowledge…

Reviews Affirmative Action Act passed by Australian government in 1986 to prevent discrimination against women in employment. Notes that legislation requires universities to implement eight-step program. Explains how University of Melbourne used workshop approach to encourage people on campus to believe in new rules and procedures and to follow…

Relates a middle school teacher's experiences at an ISTA (International Schools Theatre Association) conference in Budapest, including viewing or participating in short performances, small ensemble work, and workshops. Describes her activities in the movement workshop. (PA)

A group of 88 physicians and 126 diabetic patients were surveyed before and 6 and 12 months after doctors' participation in the Office Practice Environment Negotiations Program. Results showed that teaching physicians how to reorganize their practice environment increased adoption of case management strategies. (SK)

Discusses the use of fairy tales in a prison adult basic education writing workshop based on work of Campbell and others. Examines use of mythology with beginning writers to enhance writing skills and provide a forum for the exploration of personal lives and values. (SK)

Introduces Gary Paulsen as an author who deserves to be discovered and appreciated in the reading and writing workshop setting. Asserts that his appeal is widespread and that he is an author to be read aloud, to be listened to, and to be written about. Suggests activities for using Paulsen's works in the classroom. (PRA)

Describes three exercises used at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in workshops for students and teachers to get participants on their feet, speaking Shakespeare's language, giving them a kinesthetic experience Shakespeare, and deepening their intellectual appreciation of the language. (SR)

Responds to an article in the same issue by Ann Ruggles Gere entitled, "Kitchen Tables and Rented Rooms: The Extracurriculum of Composition." Argues that Gere's emphasis on alternative histories of literacy instruction provides a useful new direction for historians of composition instruction. (HB)

Responds to an article in the same issue by Ann Ruggles Gere entitled, "Kitchen Tables and Rented Rooms: The Extracurriculum of Composition." Considers the feasibility of the term established by Gere, "extracurriculum." Analyzes Gere's argument concerning the composition field's culture of professionalism. (HB)

Discusses a teacher's experiences at an all-day workshop on "Putting First Things First"--the third of Stephen Covey's "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People." Discusses avoiding the tyranny of the "urgent"; planning, prevention, relationship-building; and kicking the "urgency addiction." Discusses…

Discusses four Romantic themes that are crucial to writing workshop practice (self-expression, liberation from convention, celebration of emotion, and a valuing of folk cultures), explaining how the writing workshop approach embodies these themes; summarizing criticisms of these approaches; sketching a conception of student voice that looks…

Discusses a psychoeducational grief workshop held in the spring of 1997 at Bowling Green State University. Describes challenges faced by the Counseling Center as the workshop was planned, and explains the goals of each session. Evaluation revealed that students were extremely satisfied with the program. (MKA)