The reading workshop is not based on ability groups, but provides a venue to focus on each student's strengths and needs. Components include a teacher-sharing time, focus lesson, state-of-the-class conference, self-selected reading and responding time, and student-sharing time. (MLH)

Reports on the Association for Educational Technology (AECT) Summer Leadership Institute (Montreal, Canada, July 2000). The Institute opened with icebreaker activities. Then the results of last year's summer institute were reviewed. Participants re-acted to the fuzzy cognitive map that was generated last year. AECT and its future, Web-based…

Discusses computer use in education, connection to the Internet, and how this technology is being integrated into the curriculum. Describes experiences in Kentucky, including teacher's attitudes toward technology; teacher training needs; and an example of a successful training model in the form of a three-day teacher workshop for teachers.…

Presents five articles discussing aspects of literacy promotion in the day care center setting: "Promoting Language, Literacy, and a Love of Learning Makes a Difference (Joan Lombardi); "Creating Readers" (Leah Curry-Rood); "Family Literacy" (Jean Berry Racin); "Setting the Stage for Literacy Events in the Classroom" (Judith A. Schickedanz); and…

Describes a "Young Author's Camp" that portrayed writing positively and as connected to art. States that the youngsters wrote constantly, some days with assigned topics and some days writing about things that "obsessed" them. Finds that students who disliked writing discovered how enjoyable it can be. (PA)

A basic goal for individuals as they struggle to face normative developmental tasks across their life span is to determine how to make meaning of their experiences, real and vicarious. The authors describe a workshop that gave counselors and human service practitioners meaning-making strategies that they could use in their personal and…

Describes a new high school teacher's implementation of a reading and writing workshop. Discusses her feelings and insecurities involved in her decision making. Acknowledges her variance from standard teaching practices and expresses her confidence in giving students choices in order to equip them for their lives after high school. (SG)

Describes a model process for providing career services to individuals with severe disabilities and presents the outcomes of a 3-year demonstration project. After completing a career workshop series based at a community college followed by job search support and ongoing follow-up with employers and employees, all 40 project participants achieved…

A survey of academic chemistry librarians concerning how they obtain and maintain subject knowledge found: 86% took college-level chemistry courses, 64% have a science degree, and 43% have a chemistry degree. Respondents work on professional development activities such as scanning core science journals, subscribing to science discussion lists,…

Describes a curriculum transformation project at Ohio's Mount Union College (a predominantly white school) designed to help faculty members restructure their courses to reflect a multicultural approach and provide information to help students work in diverse settings. A yearlong workshop teaches educators to make multicultural issues central,…

Created to fill a need for low-cost Internet access in rural Washington County, Ohio, the nonprofit Information Technology Group teamed up with a local college to provide technical assistance and free seminars on basic computing and technology use for local residents. The group regards residents' technological literacy as a building block of…

In considering how diversity training can transform students' thinking about themselves in relation to people who are different, Otterbein College redesigned a diversity training workshop. It took into account student cognitive development and used direct experiential learning. This article presents one example of diversity training that impacts…

When students graduate from college, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) wants to make sure they hold the keys to economic success. And one of those keys, the CBCF says, should unlock the door to their own home. Toward this end, the foundation has embarked upon an initiative to help young people graduate from renters to homeowners.…

Keith Park, advisory teacher for Sense (the National Deafblind Rubella Association) in Greenwich and Lewisham, London, has written about his approach to interactive storytelling for BJSE before. This article describes a series of poetry workshops based on chapters 37 to 45 of the Book of Genesis (the story of Joseph and his family) using the text…

The term 'community arts theatre' is used here to describe theatre created and performed by groups of adults in Telford, Shropshire, a new town in the West Midlands of England. The author, who was the co-founder and a theatre worker at Telford Community Arts (TCA), argues that their work is best understood as grassroots artistic reflections of and…