September 2002 • Volume 34 • Number 1

Nurturing Good People

Community Problem Solving Works for Middle Level Students
Jann E. Bohnenberger & Alice W. Terry
Community Problem Solving Program provides the structure necessary to organize an effective community project by clarifying the real-world application of the creative problem solving process.

Nurturing Young Adolescents Legally and Ethically
Jason P. Klein & Elizabeth T. Lugg
A well-designed, comprehensive middle school program is too important in the development of young adolescents to forsake out of fear of potential
litigation.

Character Education Provides Focus for Advisory
Daniel Deitte
Character education, teamwork, and community building give advisory time a focus.

What Works and What Doesn't Work in Five Teacher Advisory Programs
Judith F. Esposito & Claire Cole Curcio
Examining five different advisory programs helps us see how to tailor a program to individual community needs.

A Student Perspective on Young Adolescent Violence
Holly J. Thornton
Young adolescents engage in learning content, not just for content's sake, but to make sense of their world and learn how to care for it.

Expecting, Accepting, and Respecting Difference in Middle School
Lori Olafson & Margaret Macintyre Latta
Classroom environments can either celebrate or silence individual differences, with consequences for students' identity formation.

Four Criteria for Engaging Girls in the Middle Level Classroom
Gayle Buck & Nancy Ehlers
Listening for girls' "different voices" is a first step to designing lessons that will engage them.

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Departments

The Editor Reflects
Tom Erb
Nurturing Good People

User-Friendly Research
David L. Hough
Learning Lessons from Research

What Research Says
Lucinda M. Wilson & Hadley Wilson Horch
Implications of Brain Research for Teaching Young Adolescents

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