Responds to an article in the same issue by Ann Ruggles Gere entitled, "Kitchen Tables and Rented Rooms: The Extracurriculum of Composition." Gives two examples of "extracurricular" readers and writers that have been neglected by historians: African-American literary societies and community-based writing groups. (HB)

Reports on "Runaway with Words," a poetry workshop for at-risk teens in Florida's runaway shelters. Describes how, through various exercises, oral recitations, and conversations, troubled teens learn basic writing skills that help them gain control over their emotions. (SR)

Discusses ways for teachers to develop their own writing workshops. Discusses briefly four teacher-generated workshops. (RS)

Describes a workshop designed to help prepare new teachers for their first day of school. (ZWH)

Aging 2000 is a Rhode Island organization of community-based networks working to improve geriatric health care through consumer empowerment. Evaluation of workshops on health behavior and the health-care system shows the viability of using older adult volunteers as peer teachers. (SK)

Argues that the artists workshop, a parallel approach to readers-writers workshop, empowers children to express inner thoughts and feelings and helps students and teachers form a classroom community of learners. Describes routines of the workshop, the ways in which writing and literature connect to art, and the climate that encourages children to…

Action-learning techniques and acknowledgment of prior experience are components of integrated workshops for Australian agriculture producers in a program known as Futureprofit. Evaluations show the program effectively improves producers' planning, communication, and decision making through adherence to adult learning principles. (SK)

A drug-and-alcohol-prevention program in which elementary school parents serve as parent-to-parent facilitators is described as a peer-education model of adult education. (SK)

Describes a virtual workshop where participants across the United States learn by interacting with their own computers. Highlights the program's goals, audience activity, goals versus accomplishments, CPU usage, consulting, and effectiveness. (Author/VWL)

Discusses a meeting about evidence-based medicine. Presents the format and aim of the meeting and explains what best evidence medical education (BEME) is. Believes medical education specialists are responsible for doing research and disseminating the information to users through workshops, journals, and funding. (YDS)

Describes a workshop on citizenship education in British schools and explores issues of citizenship education for minority students. Citizenship education must address the power relations that saturate society and society's educational provisions. Discusses the real meaning of democratic schooling. (SLD)

Provides a course overview and a critical statement of a course for seniors (a capstone experience) at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington described as "a workshop leading to production of a senior manuscript in prose or poetry and public reading of selected work." (PA)

The Food Project brings together Boston-area youth to grow and distribute food for the hungry and in the process, develop leadership and job skills. Summer crew workers (high school students) grow vegetables, distribute them to food pantries, and sell them at farmer's markets. Crew leaders learn more about sustainable agriculture and hone…

An interactive workshop based on longitudinal case studies and using Schon's reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action was presented to 37 physicians. Pre/postworkshop data from eight participants showed significant improvements in their knowledge. (SK)

Describes a project where the author worked with students twice a week to observe and document types of collaboration that took place during writing workshops. Presents evidence to identify types of collaboration. Discusses these observations and delineates classroom components that allow these interactions to take place. Considers types of…