Describes three programs implemented in the Providence, Rhode Island, elementary schools to improve students' self-image. These include a guidance/puppetry program, student of the week awards, and a behavioral management system. (JAC)

Proposes a model for a peer group facilitator program which stresses the need for assimilating attempts to understand the self and others as opposed to focusing exclusively on student competencies, intellectual gains, and competitive cognitive processes. (Author/ABB)

This article presents typical high school counseling problems--lack of space, insufficient materials, and lack of access to existing materials. It then describes how one school solved these problems by creating a modern counseling center. Details for setting up such a center are provided, including location and design, materials (self-awareness,…

Describes changes in children, schooling, and behavior that have occurred during the 20th century. Argues for the construction of a comprehensive advisory program at the middle level, connected to the central mission of the school to achieve the outcomes of high achievement, good citizenship, strong self-concepts based on attainment, and…

A project was designed to provide career development activities for selected educationally at-risk seventh graders in two target junior high schools in the Roanoke City Public School System, Virginia. The assumption was that career development activities that provide students with increased self-understanding, coupled with strategies involving the…