Students become highly interested in the work. Teachers videotape interviews with students as part of the evaluation process. Students take their projects home. Project includes a class presentation in a bound booklet and attached cassette tape containing student poems, music compositions, and visual art works. Formal feedback collected, and response from parents and administrators is overwhelmingly positive.
Parents ask how the project can expand and move into other areas such as math and science.
Jim and Danni meet with teachers and program officers from Spencer Foundation . Presentation is well received. Data collection begins. Team invited to submit a letter to Spencer to extend the project into 1999. Old Rochester Regional School Department.