designer education for new millennium teens pt2
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Designer Education for New Millennium Teens (Part 2)
Coalition for Jewish Learning’s
Teen Days of Discovery,
Social Action, and the Arts
and Mini-Schools Programming
Teen Day of Social Action
Format included nosh, teaching by rabbi, educational programming, lunch, and service
Attended by 41 teens, including 26 new to our programming--2006
Cooperative venture with Tikkun Ha-Ir and several community agencies
Jewish Teen Day of the Arts
Contracted with Bucketworks, a self-described “playground for the mind” for site and expertise; “values gathering”
Format included exploration of Jewish identity through a compelling arts experience, nosh, creation of objets d’art, and sharing of creations
Attracted 20 teens
Mini-School of the Arts
Community partnerships—Example: Young Jewish Filmmakers’ Project-- a partnership with docUWM
Community as classroom Low time commitment/high interest content and activities “Architecture” of the curriculum—“form follows function” Each mini-school program will produce some tangible
objet d’art that can be shared with the community Artists as teachers Advisory board of local artists with “cutting edge” ideas
and connections to possible staff
Proposed projects--2007-2008
Dance/Drama-a dance installation piece pair with a series of one-act plays based on the same theme—possibly the chain of Jewish history
A large work—mural or mosaic in a public space, paired with text study to help develop content
A second film
Proposed New Mini-Schools
Social Action Seminar and Practicum Environmental projects in the community Hebrew/Israel studies combined with a trip Text-based sessions on high interest topics Teen Holocaust Theater Technology based investigations Dance/Music/Art/Poetry/Prose/Graphic Novels
Proposed Teen Day of Hasbara
Israel education Retreat setting Partnership with Hillel Foundation of
Milwaukee College students as mentors