This special report includes ideas and activities for improving elementary math education. Three sections present 12 ways to become a better math teacher, 3 activities from Marilyn Burns (a crusader for improved math instruction), and a profile of teachers who found innovative ways to link math to the classroom curriculum. (SM)

History definition and interpretation often excludes many groups. History education should teach learning habits and thinking skills that produce legitimate historical generalizations supported by reliable sources. Student historians must change from passive accepters of others' interpretations to historians grappling to define, interpret, and…

Includes "Joining Forces" (Lindamood); "Spiritual Dimension of the Learning Organisation" (Hawkins); "Management--A 'Spiritual' Foundation?" (Nevard); "Hermit in Organisations" (Murray); "Towards a Spiritual Perspective on Behavior at Work" (Henson); "On Uncertainty" (Adlam); "Spirituality in Organisations" (Lee); "Ecological Organisation" (Conn);…

This article describes a professional development six-part model based on a holistic approach which assumes that educators' professional behavior is not influenced by a single factor in their professional environment, but by the totality of their educational and professional experience. (IAH)

Addresses the need to clarify dimensions of holistic approaches to integrating children's services by examining current collaborative initiatives in Ontario, Canada. Outlines social and demographic trends, discusses ecological perspectives influencing the cooperation movement, and explores murky implementation issues. Cooperative ventures must…

Research indicates that middle schools are very successful at meeting the needs and developmental characteristics of young adolescents. Middle schools use a team approach, providing stability and continuity as teachers integrate subject areas into broader themes and units. Parental involvement is encouraged at the middle school level. (SM)

Explains the developmental pathways of the School Development Program: physical, psychoemotional, social-interactive, speech/language, cognitive-intellectual, and moral-ethical. Describes its principles, including identification, imitation, internalization, interpersonal relationships, language mediation, and recognition that all children can…

The School Development Program includes a School Planning and Management Team, a Mental Health Team, and Parents Program. The mental health component involves collaboration of child development and mental health experts and the community in dealing with individual student and global school issues in mental health. (SK)

Until recently, teaching at Virginia Tech meant 1 professor in a room with 20 randomly assembled educational administration students enrolled in an isolated, narrowly defined course. program. Under the NASSP Alliance project, professors have developed a holistic, team-approach to instruction and benefit from a reading program that encourages idea…

Defines literacy to include literacies and examines literacies through the arts with a view of cognition and learning that explicates the differing forms of representation in aesthetic education. An expanded view of literacy learning is presented under the umbrella of problem solving. The article discusses classroom practice. (SM)

Examines why the arts, particularly dance, are significant in education and why art forms should be taught with other disciplines. The article provides examples of integrated arts experiences and describes how to begin with the essence of an idea and make connections in the arts and other curriculum areas. (SM)

Off-campus training called "gasshuku" in Japanese middle and high schools is described. The training, which embodies Japanese cultural themes and values in the three-part curriculum of academic subjects, moral lessons, and special activities, functions as a rite of passage into adulthood in Japan's industrial society. (MMU)

Anecdotes describe how outdoor education provides active-learning experiences by involving students in direct interaction with each other and the real world. Outdoor education reveals the inherent natural connections between different branches of knowledge by accessing and honoring multiple modalities of thinking and expressing, and encouraging…

Examines the O'Banion model of academic advising, used for over 20 years, and presents a variation that is both nonlinear and holistic. Applying O'Banion's five dimensions (exploration of life goals, exploration of vocational goals, program choice, course choice, scheduling options) to two case studies, the authors demonstrate how advisors and…

Designing environmentally friendly challenge courses involves considering factors such as clearing, trees versus poles, soil erosion and compaction, toilet design, waste disposal, and carrying capacity. Strategies used in "green development" such as systems thinking, solution multipliers, and brainstorming with stakeholders could promote…