The following article is a translation from The Yomiuri Shimbun's Education Renaissance series. 　This installment--the second in a five-part series that looks into activities carried out in various areas as part of the Newspapers in Education (NIE) movement--focuses on a Tokyo primary school where all teachers and administrators are dedicated to their NIE campaign By Yuka Sumiyoshi　Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer Shingo Kawaguchi, right, supervises fourth year students at Higashi-Jujo Primary School in Kita Ward, Tokyo,as they resd newspapers in class Sept.16, while principal Shuji Sekiguchi ,back left, looks on. 　A great cry of delight broke out among fourth-year students at Higashi-Jujo Primary School in Kita Ward, Tokyo, when their teacher spread out a scroll depicting lunar variations on a blackboard during a science class on Sept. 16. 　 "There are various phases of the moon's changing shape. It was a full moon four days ago, but how will it look tonight?" Shingo Kawaguchi said, spreading out the poster with graphics including crescent moons and the full moon. "Wow!" the students shouted, looking at the changing shapes of the moon. 　The graphics--prepared by the teacher--were an enlarged copy of an article carried in The Yomiuri Shimbun's local edition. 　Kawaguchi came up with the idea for the school's NIE special programs in late November, in which all teachers were supposed to show their teaching methods to the rest of the teachers in actual classes. 　A beginner in the NIE program, Kawaguchi said: "At first, I didn't know how to handle newspapers [in class] as a study resource. But now I feel comfortable using newspapers however I like." 　Kawaguchi prepared the Sept. 16 class following a series of consultations with his colleagues since late August. 　Under a whole-school system designed by principal Shuji Sekiguchi, teachers are encouraged to consult each other frankly over their use of newspapers in the classroom. 　As a teacher, Sekiguchi, 56, has been using newspapers in class for years. After he became a principal for the first time at Oji Dai-san Primary School, run by the ward government, he launched the NIE program as a whole-school project, believing "a project won't last very long if each teacher works on it individually." 　Thanks to the principal's leadership the atmosphere among teachers has transformed. 　At the Higashi-Jujo school, all students are encouraged to read newspapers for 15 to 20 minutes in class once a week. In corridors, corners have been set up for newspapers so students can read them anytime. 　It's not only the students who have learned something through the NIE program, the principal said. The teachers have improved their teaching methods by incorporating the newspapers into their lesson plans, with their efforts broadening their range of ideas. 　Such whole-school programs in Kita Ward are supported by the Shimbun Daisuki Purojekuto--a project launched last year by the education board of the ward government. As part of the project, the education board has started training programs for primary and middle school teachers in charge of NIE, while providing subsidies to schools to cover their expenses to invite outside lecturers who specialize in NIE programs. 　Machiko Yokota, principal of the municipal Makibi Higashi Middle School in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, launched an NIE program as a whole-school project after she took her post. 　 "When teachers introduce news articles they are interested in once a week in class, students sometimes show their surprise, saying they 'didn't know you [the teacher] were interested in such a topic,'" Yokota said. "In that way, [NIE] also serves as a means of communication between teachers and students." 　According to Yokota, students formed a group on their own initiative in which they discuss various topics found in articles run by newspapers.