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Innovative Programs For Elementary Schools

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...Kathie Easter, - October, 1998 "Your stories are hidden inside your textured papers. It is your job (as)author/illustrators to discover them." As I share these final words, the eyes of the twenty-two children gathered around me grow wide. As if they cannot wait another minute, they flock to the plastic crate at the other end of the classroom to claim their portfolios of hand-painted textured papers. In a flurry of activity, the children eagerly spread out their papers on the floor for viewing (Olshansky, 1994, p. 14). This teacher then gives the details of how these paintings inspire her class to write stories pertaining to their drawings. Teachers are applying innovative ideas to all aspects of the curriculum-including programs that simply improve the overall social environment. For example, at Monroe Elementary in Boise, Idaho the school has introduced an innovative strategy that discourages bullying (Youngerman, 1998). An interesting feature of many of these programs is that they creatively combine one or more disciplines For instance, recent educational philosophy has...

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