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Vol. 33, No. 6 THE VOICE OF THE DELAWARE STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION May/June 2013 INSIDE Minority Leadership Conference all about positive engagement Pages 16-17 n n n DPAS II - the latest Page 5 n n n Radio stations and DSEA honor you Pages 6-7 It's thumbs up for DSEA's Human and Civil Rights Awards according to James Austin. A junior at John Dickinson High School in Red Clay, Austin accepts a third place award in the High School Division Writing Contest. His realistic first-person fictional accounting tells of a white student in a 1967 Missouri high school. His encounter with Roy Wilkins, exec. director of the NAACP, changed his thinking about race, equal opportunity and his own place in society. With Austin is his AP Language and Composition teacher, Kristin Zerbe. Students explore human and civil rights in writing and the arts ristin Zerbe (above) teaches English Language Arts, including AP Language and Composition, at John Dickinson High School. Her passion is Creative Writing, and she has assigned our contest subject to her students since the DSEA Human and Civil Rights Writing Contest K began 15 years ago. And she has had winners every year. This year there were 56 entries in the Writing Contest; 99 entries in the Art Contest; and 54 entries in the Computer Graphics Contest. Some entries were group or class projects. In all, 306 students participated. We know there is precious little time to include contests in today's curriculum. Beginning on page 12, however, you'll see quotes from teachers about why they encourage their students to enter this particular contest, as well as the story about our 2013 Human and Civil Rights Awardee, Fred Duffy.