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HOTS: Helping Low Achievers in Grades 4-7.

Pogrow, Stanley – Principal, 1996

HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) is a creative program (combining the use of computers, drama, Socratic dialog, and a detailed curriculum) to build thinking skills of educationally disadvantaged students in grades four through seven. HOTS learning activities help students realize what thinking and persevering can accomplish. Principals can help…

Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities

Clubs Reach Urban Middle Level Students.

Hale, Rosalind P. – Schools in the Middle, 1993

When busing limits number of afternoon activities and students do not seem interested anyway, principals must look for opportunities during day to involve students. One inner-city middle-school principal helped teachers initiate program of morning clubs and assemblies to increase student self-esteem and encourage student and parent involvement…

Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Assembly Programs, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities