DIVERSITY ART & ESSAY CONTEST!

DIVERSITY Art & Essay Contest

for high school and middle school students

The Interfaith Dialogue Center (IDC) is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Diversity Art & Essay Contest for students 9th to 12th grade in New Jersey. Students will be awarded more than $10,000. This year's theme is Who is My Neighbor? Visit the contest website for more information.

IDC's Art & Essay contest for middle school and high school students was held first time in 2010. We received over 750 entries from all over NJ. You can see last year's Award Ceremony and winners by visiting this link, and this link. You may watch the video of the award ceremony, just click here. There are important values that help keep societies afloat, with this in mind IDC has undertaken this important project. IDC organizes the DIVERSITY ART&ESSAY CONTEST to instill some of these values in our young and to give them a forum with various platforms in which they can express their understanding and analysis of these values. Contest will be held in two categories where students will be awarded generously. More information is available at our web site.

Future-Proof Your Education!

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WATCH SOME MOVIES THIS WEEKEND!

Mubi

Contemplative Pause...

"The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes of all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning we cannot begin to see. Unless we see, we cannot think. Nothing can take the place of thoughts. If we do not think, we cannot act freely." -Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (New York: Image) 77 and 79.



Contemplative Pause...

 

Throughout this week... PAUSE.

 

TAKE A BREATH and LISTEN WITH YOUR HEART.

 
 

        What is one thing

that you can do

                      in this moment

to spring clean?

100 Awesome Open Courses & Lectures for Digital Artists!

LIVE TO LOVE. LOVE TO LEARN. LEARN TO CREATE!
100 Awesome Open Courses & Lectures for Digital Artists!

LET KIDS RULE THE SCHOOL

LET KIDS RULE THE SCHOOL

DIRECTIONS: Read the article via the link provided and respond to the following questions with your position on the topic. Write your answers in paragraph form (3-5 sentences each) in a Gdoc and submit the hyperlink to the comment box. 


1. Define: profound, impediment, flagged, critiqued, queries, inquiry, endeavor, transformative, thwarts





2. Why do you think so many students drop out of school?




3. If students had more responsibility for their own education, would they learn more? Would graduation rates improve? Explain.





4. Do you think the experiment discussed in the article will have a lasting impact on those students’ academic achievement? Why/why not?





5. Would the experiment work if it were implemented school-wide?





6. Do you think students designing their own curriculum would be motivated to challenge themselves, or would they just do the bare minimum? Explain.





7. Would you like the opportunity to design your own curriculum? Why/why not?





8. If you could design your own curriculum for one year, what would you choose to learn?

Taylor Mali on what teachers make