ROCK YOUR WORLD

 Rock your world is an innovative, project-based middle/high school curriculum that inspires students to ask bold questions about the challenges they see in their neighborhoods, communities and the world around them and then engages them in the development of advocacy campaigns designed to overcome those challenges.

Starting with a basic understanding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the program introduces students to a variety of research techniques designed to help them become aware and informed about an issue of their choice. Next, students study tactics and techniques employed by successful campaigns and then create and pitch their own advocacy campaigns through a creative outlet of their choice: making films, writing persuasively or writing songs.

Flexible, free and fully aligned with Common Core State Standards, Rock Your World offers more than 70 lessons from which teachers can choose, depending on their instructional goals and students’ interests and needs. Sponsored by the Creative Visions’ Foundation and inspired by the remarkable life of young artist and photojournalist, Dan Eldon, Rock Your World is free and available for download.

Why Rock your World?

 Jennifer Gross learned about Rock your World when she worked as a volunteer with Creative Visions founders, Kathy and Amy Eldon, mother and sister of Dan Eldon. Blue Chip’s contribution to Rock your World in 2011 proved to be a game-changer for the program, funding new curricula and upgrading a website that has nurtured the creative activist spirit in more than 700,000 students and 29,000 teachers working in 25,000 schools in 72 countries.

 Blue Chip Foundation will continue to support the organization in 2018 by providing funding for a program director, creating a new film curriculum, and producing a new pop-up Exhibit which will travel around the nation and engage students to tell their own stories.

Rock Your World’s work aligns with the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:

4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship

4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations

4.6 By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy

4.7 By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development

5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere