A comprehensive, inservice staff renewal program is described. (MM)

Information is presented on several specialized camps that can accommodate children with diabetes, epilepsy, hemophilia, or asthma. (CB)

In 1982, the Duvall County Public Schools in Jacksonville, Florida, launched the Potential National Merit Scholars Program because the superintendent believed that students could qualify by intent, not accident. Several special programs to identify and prepare students, including the superintendent's 100 Super Scholars and summer think camps, are…

Camp Mind's Eye is a one-week residential summer program for intellectually and creatively gifted children provided by Camp Tyler (Texas), one of the oldest outdoor education facilities. The camp program stresses right brain thinking, a flexible curriculum, and autonomous instructors. (DB)

High school students from throughout Ohio spend one week on the Ohio State University campus for academic, cultural, and social activities. The project is a model for providing differential experiences for gifted secondary students under the auspices of a State Department, University, local school districts, and business community. (Author)

A summer enrichment program integrated language arts skills with outdoor education to produce a qualitatively different program to meet the needs of gifted students. (CL)

Based on the characteristic of gifted children to master content quickly and on needs of classroom teachers to provide differentiated instruction in content areas, the teacher institute emphasized the role of the content specialist. The highly significant gain from pre- to posttest suggests the institute curriculum was effective. (Author/CL)

The article describes a summer residential enrichment program for gifted students in grades seven to nine. The program featured collaboration between the Junior League of Columbus, Ohio, and Ohio Wesleyan University. (CL)

A multimedia eight-week summer drama course for emotionally disturbed adolescents is described. Activities (including projects, drama notebooks, and play presentations) are reviewed along with resources. (CL)

Outlines a summer computer program for high school students that provides extra time and experience on computers and familiarizes students with skills needed for the Scholastic Aptitude Test. (MD)

A summer program in Calhoun County, Texas drew on community volunteers and resources to provide inexpensive enrichment classes for gifted students (grades 6-9) based on identified student interests. (BL)

A nutrition camp for preadolescent children makes it possible to study the nutritional needs of normal individuals. Aspects involved in this program are discussed: recruitment of subjects, personnel, training and coordination, menus, payment to subjects, medical, critical times, adjustment period, equipment and space needs, collection of excreta,…

Suggestions are offered for planning and communicating what is done in summer agricultural programs through an outline format that is divided into four stages: plan, execute, report, and revise. (EA)

A well planned calendar of scheduled events and established priorities are necessary for a successful summer vocational agriculture program. The article includes suggestions for instruction and professional improvement and methods of assisting the public to identify community services offered by vocational agriculture. (EA)

Vocational agriculture teachers are required to be accountable but need better guidance to determine specifically for what they are accountable. Suggestions are made for handling accountability during the time school is not in session, with the help of an active advisory committee composed of interested local people. (SA)