This article features five classroom teachers who realized their publishing dreams. These teachers include Blue Balliet, author of "Chasing Vermeer" and ""The Wright Three," Patricia Reilly Giff, author of "Today Was a Terrible Day," Lily's Crossing," and "Pictures of Hollis Woods," Vicki Cobb, author of "I Face the Wind," and Science Experiments…

Suggestions are made for how elementary school teachers can use a tree form on their bulletin boards, with occasional changes in display materials, to organize, inform, teach, classify, and reinforce classroom topics and school events. (CB)

Videotapes are a popular medium for classroom instruction. Author reviews 20 recent video releases that range in subject from "Why Doesn't Grass Grow on the Moon?" to "Problem-Solving in the Real World." A list of film distributors is provided. (JL)

Suggestions are offered for overall restructuring of the mathematics curriculum to increase instructional intensity and eliminate repetition. Individual teachers' are urged to reshape their teaching materials and methods to renew students' interest in mathematics. (CB)

This article describes a computer network system that connects several microcomputers to a single disk drive and one copy of software. Many schools are switching to networks as a cheaper and more efficient means of computer instruction. Teachers may be faced with copywriting problems when reproducing programs. (DF)

A year-long music instruction unit introduces students to information about the lives of nine great composers of the classics and to their works. Each month a different composer is featured. No special training for teachers is necessary. (PP)