Describes the efforts of St. Paul's School in Concord (New Hampshire) to join with local agencies and public schools to provide students with practical experiences and advanced programs. For its 125th anniversary, St. Paul's sponsored a series of seminar discussions on school effectiveness that included a national group of scholars. (WD)

Presents 10 essays on Columbia Scholastic Press Association's summer workshop which brought students together to build skills and consider new concepts. Discusses a veteran teacher's reasons for attending workshops, opportunities to taste city life, the bond of student journalists, editorial challenges, emphasis on yearbooks' possibilities, and…

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)

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…

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 founder of the Shad Valley (Ontario, Canada) summer program for gifted teenagers in 1984 suggests that the current selection process may not be adequate and fails to encourage applications from some students who would profit from the program. The program is seen to provide direct benefits to the universities that host the program, the…

Summer learning comes from reading books, singing songs, playing games, listening to stories, taking trips, and all kinds of other fun activities that kids rarely realize are actually good for them. However, this kind of summer learning can be more difficult for children of low-income and other disadvantaged families. Careful analysis of…

Reports how participation in a summer program of the National Writing Project helped to revitalize a junior high school English teacher and the 1,000 teachers she herself taught. (RL)

Planning summer programs of vocational agriculture should begin well before the summer months. Teachers should make a priority list of activities containing items such as changes or improvements in the curriculum, Future Farmers of America activities, summer supervision, professional improvement, preparation of facilities and equipment, and…

"Walking the Talk" (Lozada) describes summer programs in which counselors enroll in summer school courses; "Teachers for Hire" (McClain) shows vocational teachers participating in an externship program updating their knowledge while earning graduate-level credit; and "Earning and Learning" (Lozada) tells how high school students take college-level…

Examines the characteristics of gifted and talented students and describes three cooperative mentoring programs. They are the Executive Internship Program and the Laboratory Experience Program (both in Hillsborough County, Florida) and university-based summer programs at many institutions. Also identifies risks, such as breaking of close…

Three adult educators who conducted a summer institute for 40 graduate students discuss how their positionalities influence conceptions of pedagogy and multiculturalism and shape inclusive teaching/learning interactions. They describe the sometimes uneasy intersections of the personal, the professional, and the political. (Contains 18 references.)…

This case study reports on the design and implementation of an experimental summer program aimed at introducing undergraduates to research in computer science. A research component added to a regular course on human-computer interaction based on the summer program is described, and recommendations for providing undergraduate research experience…