5 Reasons WHY Teachers Should Care About The One Love Symposium

#5. The One Love Symposium Teen Writing Contest: The writing projects submitted to the Teen Writing Contest will be considered important data in an effort to articulate a body of training knowledge for professionals who rely on the Point of Service to do their jobs.

#4. Teacher and Student Compensation: Students must submit writing through a Registered Teacher. Registered Teachers who submit 5 or more student writing projects are eligible for Compensation through the project. All students who submit a writing project will be included in our One Love Symposium Anthology. Contest winners will receive CASH prizes.

#3. Community-Based Creative Inquiry: This project engages youth, their communities, subject-area specialists, and artists in a collaborative effort toward a solution to a well defined problem. This problem is judgement errors at the Point of Service - a moment where personal biases can unfairly influence a professional’s judgements about YOU. 

#2. Our Team: The One Love Symposium has attracted a wide variety of individual and organizational sponsors connected to universities, school districts, the arts, and business. Involvement with this project puts participants in contact with an amazing group of important community members!

#1. Active Engagement with Social Transformation: In these challenging, changing times there are so many amazing projects popping up on the youth development scene. The One Love Symposium stands out for its intentionally articulated Value Propositions and its structure that connects youth to professionals, and ultimately to the state government. 

The One Love Symposium is:

• An opportunity to contribute to high-impact knowledge building;

• An opportunity to engage in a philosophical examination of our experiences in social interaction with professionals, and;

• It's all wrapped up in an awesome party with great music and art!