Rock Your World teaches youth to use the power of storytelling and media to understand and become advocates of human rights issues. Designed by educators, the program helps teachers engage middle and high school students in real world issues and guide them in exploring and communicating what they learn through advocacy campaigns.
Starting with a basic understanding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the program guides students in a variety of research techniques designed to help them become informed about an issue of their choice. Students then learn skills in storytelling, video, music and art production, as well as techniques of successful campaigns and how to best to share them.
Rock Your World empowers students to have confidence in their ability to make positive change in their communities and to become well-informed, engaged citizens. Flexible, free and fully aligned with Common Core State Standards, Rock Your World offers more than 70 downloadable lessons from which teachers can choose, depending on their instructional goals and students’ interests and needs.
Rock Your World is a program of Creative Visions
and was inspired by the remarkable life of Dan Eldon.
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Creative Visions
Inspired by the life of photojournalist Dan Eldon, who was killed in Somalia in 1993, his mother and sister, Kathy and Amy Eldon-Turteltaub launced Creative Visions in 1998 as a United Nations 501(c)3 organization. Creative Visions supports creative activists – people who use film, media and the arts to spark awareness of critical issues and ignite social change.
In 2008, Creative Visions launched Rock Your World, Dr. Marien’s curriculum, to teach creative activism to middle and high school students across the U.S. Since then, the curriculum has been adopted by educators across the globe who utilize its lessons to empower young people to use their voice.
Dan Eldon
Dan Eldon was an artist, photojournalist, adventurer and activist. During Dan’s abbreviated life, he lit sparks, that after his death, illuminated the paths of hundreds of thousands of people.
The Journey is the Destination, the feature film about Dan, tells the story of a young man struggling to realize his purpose, his place in the world, and his belief in the role of individuals to create positive change. Check out the Rock Your World curriculum based on The Journey is the Destination
here.
