Peer helping is a system of delivering service to young people who do not seek it from traditional sources. The peer helping program teaches young people to help fellow students solve personal problems, to demonstrate positive social skills, and to serve as role models in social situations. Training, which initially uses discussion and group…

This 3-year drama curriculum is designed to promote awareness, foster development, and encourage the use of imagination, creativity, co-operation, self-discipline, analysis and synthesis, self-expression, self-confidence, responsibility, communication, and cultural heritage. The curriculum is organized around a set of drama elements which are…

The study sought to design a strategic planning model to be utilized in the Student Development Department at Winnipeg Bible College in Otterbourne, Manitoba. The objective of the project was to assimilate all processes of departmental planning into one comprehensive, systematic construct. Procedures involved: the collection and categorization of…

The author, long associated with the school jazz movement, called for the teaching of improvisation rather than cued-in transcribed solos. (Editor/RK)

This is another brief account of two of the seventeen NAIS member schools founded before 1776. (Editor/RK)

Article described an art program presented to grades one through seven simultaneously, thereby making students more aware of a sequential development in the various art projects. (Author/RK)

Colored construction paper was used to develop an interesting, creative experience for elementary and high school students, who learned to appreciate and to understand the torn paper innovation in art. Examples of this tearing technique are found in works by Picasso, Motherwell, Vincenti, and Matisse. (Author/RK)

Author suggested how English teaching could best meet children's real needs. (Editor/RK)

Theater isn't just Broadway and Hollywood but rather something to enrich the lives of all people, and a western university troupe is out to prove it. (Editor)

Historically last in American schools, the arts still lag, but efforts to increase their importance in the curriculum are now more promising. (Editor)

The author, a superintendent of the Vallejo City Unified School District in California, considered the basic premise of the RISE Commission Report, i.e., that the learner is the primary client to be served by the school. (Author/RK)

Article outlined Nietzsche's beliefs on the primary aim of education, the conscious production of the free man through the process of sublimation, the active redirecting of one's life energy in the service of creativity. (Editor/RK)

Defined Career Education and Bilingual Education and outlined the objectives and responsibilities of both in providing bilingual-bicultural students the educational tools to assist them in making decisions necessary for achieving their goals. (Author/RK)

Article described a program that successfully allowed for students' individual differences while stimulating them to learn mathematics. (RK)

The aim of this article has been to highlight some of the difficulties which must be faced if interdisciplinary studies are to be introduced into the secondary school. (Author/RK)