Describes a teacher's experiences in rural Brazil as she delivered a 5-day inservice teacher education workshop on incorporating writing into the curriculum. Notes that the minister of education, a student in the course, announced that she intended to expand the program by having volunteers from among current workshop members serve as mentors for…

Presents excerpts from the journal of a U.S. educator who traveled to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to conduct a workshop at an international writing conference for teachers. The journal discusses what it is like to be an American in a partially-Muslim country following the terrorist attacks of September 11th. It also addresses cultural differences and…