Individual Articles
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Talent Hunts for Academic and Behavioral Success
$2.99A school principal describes the application of the Clifton Youth Strengths Explorer assessment developed by the Gallup organization. A fifth-grade girl who was in frequent conflict with peers and teachers was helped to identify her strengths and develop more effective emotional and academic coping skills. Learn More -
Growing Emotional Intelligence Through Community-Based Arts
$2.99The community-based arts environment is uniquely suited to addressing the needs of young people in the area of growing emotional intelligence. The arts offer specific structures, systems, and dynamics that allow for the emergence of the emotional adolescent self. Leaders in the community-based arts field must consciously position their organizations and programs as primary tools in the work of the reclamation of youth and adolescent emotional life. Learn More -
Empowering Young People Through Service
$2.99Each year, more than 200 students at YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School in Pennsylvania make a commitment to help improve Philadelphia Learn More -
Heart to Heart Art
$2.99Heart to Heart Art is an after-school program developed for homeless children and youth at the YWCA in Spokane, Washington. Pre-service teacher candidates from a local university create meaningful activities that engage homeless students in visual art, music, drama, cooking, and community service. Learn More -
Applying Art and Action
$2.99The education system in the United States is going through change. Consequently, curriculum and instructional delivery are focusing on math, reading, and science. This focus is causing an effect that reduces the amount of arts becoming infused into the school design. An alternative education program in a charter school has created a non-traditional approach to curriculum through infusing the arts into the model while maintaining theoretical structure from a sound mission. Learn More -
Drawing: An Evidence-Based Intervention for Trauma Victims
$2.99Drawing is used as a tool to reduce symptoms in those who have experienced trauma, allowing them the focus necessary to regain a sense of control and safety in their lives. Learn More -
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Industrial Art: Mission to Meaning
$2.99This is a story about industrial art. It is certainly not a story about smart studios and fashionable galleries, subtle techniques and aesthetic beauty. This is a story of sheet rock, nails, and low-grade lumber in the hands of unskilled teenage laborers. While this story boasts of no future museum pieces, it tells a heartwarming story of rare beauty. Learn More -
Achieving Their Potential
$2.99Seventy-five years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt took two crises Learn More -
Developing Controls from Within Through Service Learning
$2.99The developmental impact of national service is a newer intervention for youth. Policy influences the ability of the society to guide youth and structure their time with positive and productive activities. Built on the idea that helping one another can prepare and teach youth to regulate healthy emotions and behavior, the classic theories of Erik Erikson, Harry Stack Sullivan, and Fritz Redl are applied to contemporary national service. Learn More
