A tech prep summer camp was designed to give ninth graders a taste of tech prep before they were asked to choose a high school path. Parents were invited to dinner to learn about tech prep programs and their potential for successful careers. (JOW)

Discusses the role that feminist issues played in a summer institute at the Literature Institute for Teachers and the role of feminist theory in teacher education. Shares thoughts about the role of feminist theory in the classroom. (MG)

The author describes her experiences at a five-week summer institute designed to train 25 selected teachers to disseminate the University of Oregon Writing Project, an offshoot of the California Bay Area Writing Project. (SJL)

Offers an "unabashed hymn of praise" to the National Endowment for the Humanities for its Summer Seminars for Secondary Teachers. Describes the pleasures, discoveries, and enriching conversations that have taken place at these seminars over the last 11 years. (TB)

A father recounts experiences in selecting and sending a handicapped eight-year-old child to a summer camp. Stressed are the family reactions to the child's camping experience. (DB)

In a summer program, British adult students planned, organized, and implemented a conference on environmental issues that concerned their roles as parents, workers, and citizens. A byproduct was development of such skills as oral negotiation, researching information, writing letters, public speaking, and listening. (SK)

Draws on both workplace and academic sources to offer a flexible technical communication education model (TC model). Describes 10 attributes that meet industry's changing needs, and describes a recent National Science Foundation technical communication summer program that used the TC model. (SR)

Describes the importance of cooperative education, summer internships, or part-time undergraduate research, for students with lack of ability to visualize the process of thinking like an engineer and understanding the role of engineering in society although they have math and intuitive skills. Discusses the role of cooperative education in student…

Extols the virtues of going to summer conferences, which include the revitalization of a teacher's spirit. (RL)

Reports on the difficulties a teacher had while trying to compose her first poetry assignment at the Bread Loaf School of English. (RL)

Urges others to take advantage of study abroad in the adult education program offered at Oxford, as one English teacher and her husband did. (RL)

A student health doctor describes his experiences working in a clinic on an Indian reservation during summer vacation. (JD)

The mother of a physically disabled child encourages the participation of such children in mainstream camping programs. Suggestions to maximize the benefits of the camping experience are offered. (DB)

Narrates the experiences of a book club organized and carried out in a northern Georgia community during a summer vacation period. Describes the organization and content of the club. Highlights the experiences in that club, as recorded in extensive interviews, of Matika, one of the participants. (HB)

Describes the Orange Summer Shakespeare Festival, which offers teenagers from New Jersey (most of them African American) the opportunity to perform Shakespeare for their community and to cocreate an exemplary piece of theater that serves as a forum for the cast to transmute their stories and express their dreams, fears, rage, and joy. (SR)