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• Do You Have A Problem With That by Karl Rohnke 
• Our Ten Year Adventure at McCracken Middle School by Gus Pausz 
• Teacher Education and Service Learning at Ball State University by Jill Miels 
• Girls on the Move by Katy McCormick 

• Featured Program - Challenges Unlimited by Terri Kimura 
• Talking Circles by Pat Cleveland 
• From Our Students - Amundesen H.S. 
• Wisdom of Our Elders by Tom Smith 
• AEE Update by Sylvia Dresser 
• The Tracking Box - A Teachable Moment by Mark Zanoni 
• Book Reviews by Sylvia Dresser 
• Notable Quotes

Teachers of Experiential and Adventure Methodology (T.E.A.M.) is an organization dedicated to promoting and supporting the process of experiential and adventure based learning. Through the sharing of ideas, skills, and curricula, T.E.A.M. provides individuals and organizations in all fields of human and community service with personal and professonal growth opportunities. 

The annual conference and bi-annual Ripple Effect newsletter serve as a networking center for everyone seeking to learn about, start or enhance experiential and adventure programs.

Our first issue of the Ripple Effect published in Fall, 1992, was like dropping a pebble in a still pond. At that time there were only a few Adventure/Challenge Education programs in the State of Illinois. Last November at the Illinois State Physical Education Conference, in Arlington Heights, Illinois, over 1400 educators attended twenty-five Adventure/Challenge Education (ACE) workshops.

Tom Lindblade who developed and coordinates the Experiential Program at the College of DuPage recently surveyed all the schools in DuPage county. He stated in a recent memo, "Our county Physical Education instructors have recently mandated Adventure Education for every Physical Education program. The schools anticipate needing about one hundred people with experiential education backgrounds in the next five years."

There has been a dramatic shift in the awareness of educators about the value of this experiential process. This shift has not only been among Physical Education teachers, but educators of all disciplines who are using this concept to positively impact their students.

If you need any help in starting your program, or finding information on how to write up a proposal please give us a call. If we cannot help you we will direct you to someone who has already done what you are attempting to do. You do not have to reinvent the wheel. It is already rolling! I have never met anyone working in this area who is not enthusiastic about helping other people get started. WARNING: Empowering people to start their own program can become contagious.

Have a safe exciting and adventurous summer. We hope it is filled with learning through discovery and balanced with reflection.

Off Belay,

Dan Creely Jr.
Newsletter Committee

E-mail: Sylvia Dresser (SDres15556@aol.com) 
Dan Creely, Jr. (D-Creely@neiu.edu)
Mail: T.E.A.M. Physical Education Department Northeastern Illinois University 5500 North St. Louis Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60625
Phone: Dan Creeley,Jr. at (773)794-2982
 

First, get your own life in order. Ground yourself in the single principle so that your behavior is wholesome and effective. If you do that, you will earn respect and be a powerful influence.

Your behavior influences others through a ripple effect.  A ripple effect works because everyone influences everyone else. Powerful people are powerful influences.

If your life works, you influence your family. If your family works, your family influences the community.

If your community works, your community influences the nation. If your nation works, your nation influences the world. If the world works, the ripple effect spreads throughout the cosmos.

Remember that your influence begins with you and ripples outward. So be sure that your influence is both potent and wholesome.

How do I know that this works? All growth spreads outward from a fertile and potent nucleus.

You are a nucleus.