Sixteen severely emotionally disturbed children in an elementary school reversed a cycle of failure through a teacher-designed innovative school day program which integrated academics and social development through such activities as relaxation and body awakening. (Author/SBH)

Productive thinking, problem solving, and strategies for coping, learning, and living are all part of the ZING curriculum for emotionally disturbed and/or learning disabled students in grades 6, 7, and 8. (Author/SBH)

Children with behavior problems were taught to model a fictional turtle who withdrew into his shell to control his anger. (LS)

A teacher of 15 educable mentally handicapped elementary school children (14 of whom were of Chicano descent) used informal and structured bilingual approaches to help children become aware of the value of their language and culture and lose their fear of working with two languages. (LS)

The Sea Beside Us for the Special Child is a project in Delaware with three goals: providing outdoor and overnight experiences for handicapped children; introducing these students to beach, bay, and marsh environments; and increasing the number of special education teachers incorporating seashore studies in their teaching curriculum. (LS)

Described is a psychoeducational model for developing social contract between teachers and acting out children which uses an alternative behavior to teach social competence in the classroom. (LS)

One hundred fifty-eight gifted and talented adolescents received full or partial scholarships for a summer of on the job training and apprenticeships in scientific disciplines with exploratory expeditions all over the world. (DB)