This interview, with an administrator and an evaluator of the Summer Career Institute of Gifted Minority Students and Females held at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, addresses the topics of making career choices, prejudice of school personnel toward gifted minority students, identification procedures, cultural influences, and the role of…

Disputes the claim that narrative writing is of lesser value than expository forms, and argues that narrative holds great potential for use in writing curricula. Describes a summer science institute for minority students in which narrative was utilized. (HB)

Discusses the experiences of a fictitious teacher and events surrounding a fictitious summer institute for writing teachers--experiences which sound a great deal like Alice's adventures in Wonderland. (RS)

Describes a summer trip taken by 2 teachers, a parent, and 11 boys aged 14 to 16 to the Sayan Mountains of Siberia. The group was from a small private secondary school in the backwoods of Canada. A Siberian mountaineering club from Irkutsk led the group to the summit of Munku Sardik. (KS)

Argues that current definitions of giftedness are inappropriate for the identification of gifted and talented Indian students, and that tribal peoples must generate new, culturally relevant definitions, including abilities related to oral tradition. Describes a successful summer program that identified necessary value-based cultural competencies…

Describes NEWSCAMP, a two-week summer program for middle- and high-school students, which aims to strengthen writing skills through the use of journalistic techniques. (SR)

Notes that two texts were being read simultaneously as a teacher educator read aloud to other teachers in a summer seminar--Cynthia Rylant's "Missing May" and the experience of reading "Missing May." Notes that the teachers made meaning from both texts, working together to shape the teachers into a community because they had…

Considers how participation in the Writing Project Summer Institute is reflected in classroom practice in the teaching of writing. Argues that the experience of learning as a construction of knowledge produces converts to such a model of learning that is reflected in the classroom. (HB)

The article describes Project SHINE (Summer Home Instruction and Evaluation), which trains parents to provide brief instructional sessions to their mildly handicapped children. Five parent-child teams were trained in the six program components: pretest, practice, test, track and chart, supplemental practice, and maintenance probes. (DB)

Describes a three-unit inservice training course on cognitive styles developed by a Pennsylvania school district and approved by the state's education department. Course learnings may be applied to lesson planning, journal-writing observations, peer-coaching experiences, student-teacher learning style differences, analysis of teaching/counseling…

Presents an overview of programs conducted in earth and environmental education in Nova Scotia. Describes programs offered by the Halifax Outdoor Centre, the HeartWood Institute, and Peak Experiences, providing outdoor and adventure experiences to elementary and secondary school students and adults. (CDS)

Investigates the study abroad experience of two students in a summer program in France to see what kind of interactions influenced their learning. Results show that while homestays played a clear role in learning, other factors such as the nature of the pre-departure preparation meetings, absence of an on-site director, and prior cross-cultural…

Suggests that, in order to re-invigorate writing in schools, educators need to remind themselves of the importance of the tools of the writing process to help them explore the distinct and multiple voices and texts. Presents samples of some of the "local literacies" that students in a migrant summer school camp produced in their writing. (SG)

The Penn School of Nursing and the Macy Foundation established a comprehensive institute and technical assistance program to help nursing schools advance academic nursing practice. The Penn School consulted with 21 participating schools, providing institutes, conferences, a listserv and a web-based knowledge center focused on integrating research,…

This study evaluated embedding and distributing constant time delay instructional trials into circle time and transitions between activities in a summer camp program. Three boys (ages 5-8) with disabilities or behavior problems participated. Results indicated the children acquired the behaviors they were taught and generalized the learned…