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