Advocacy Issue Projects

hi advocacy issue projects. Um I just wanted to check in.

I've heard from quite a few of you um but wanted to chat some more with the

rest of you about the projects that you have

for the issue that you have been assigned.

And so first we're going to just go over

the three different things that you were doing.

So this semester you were doing the white paper,

the stakeholder meeting and a summary as well as in the social media campaign.

So the white paper is due this sunday october 31st by midnight.

Um so wanted to check in again, I've talked to many of you,

but for those of you that I haven't,

I wanted to make sure that you all are feeling confident with what you

okay? So let's dive a little bit further into the white paper.

So again, that's due on sunday by midnight.

And so I gave a lot of links and things about to what the white papers can look like,

what they are

and what the purpose of them is.

And so to reiterate your audience for this white paper is a legislator.

And so you are writing as succinctly as possible with backing up that all

of your evidence with citations um to really get a point across your point.

And so I would recommend Picking one Concern 1 area that you have with your topic.

Um so let's say you are the Children with

incarcerated parents topic and maybe you're concerned that you

choose to present to the legislature is about access

for Children during visitation or child friendly visiting rooms.

Um that could be like your one issue that you are presenting to them about what,

why they should be paying attention to this, backing this up with your research

and why they, you know what they could be doing to address this issue.

So maybe you have some examples from another state or some different

ideas of your own about how to make visits more friendly for Children

or maybe it is the school discipline issue.

And so you are choosing maybe the one

topic you're addressing maybe about out of school suspensions

and why that is a concern and the impact that that has on a child's education,

especially when it's used with elementary students or something like that.

And so that's the one issue you're addressing

and for the other one with the social emotional learning group.

Maybe your issue is you want to be looking at, how do we build

uh curriculums around empathy building with Children.

And that may be the issue that you choose or something along those lines and how,

how that can be done and implemented

and maybe there's different criteria or different

curriculum or different ways activities that can

be built into schools about how you

build that skill.

So that's what you're doing. I don't want you to present on the entire thing.

You're picking a narrower topic of how you would present this to your audience,

which is the legislator,

the style of this.

And so the style can be many different ways, white papers are again,

a very cyst inked writing style.

And so you want that, that could be,

you can do it in the style of a brochure.

So like a three page or like a bi tri fold brochure that you get at, you know,

different doctors offices.

And

I think uh you know,

tourist things that are in a brochure style where you have a cover page

on there and then you open it up and you've got your different,

you have a graphic,

maybe there's a graph or a chart that really makes sense for your issue or the uh

face of the curriculum or something like that,

that you want to include a picture and that's okay to include a picture into this.

Obviously we want to be mindful of space and I'm going to be paying attention though.

Does your picture take up the entire page? Because then that's a concern.

Your picture doesn't need to take up the entire page.

We still, and you can have bullet points in there, you can have paragraphs,

you can have lots of different things when you think about a brochure,

You can also choose to just do like a 1-2 page

uh paper for this.

However, it's single spaced, it's not double space,

it's not written out like a long narrative because you

have to think about your handing this to a legislator.

They want to look at it very quickly to be able to get that information

fast and they don't have to dig for

information or read long paragraphs about something.

Um And so but with your citations,

I would encourage using footnotes for your citations to save you space.

Um and you can make those citations at the

bottom of the brochure of the page really tiny,

you could do like six point font or something at the bottom,

The citations just need to be present.

Um but if you're going to use them,

make sure you have footnotes or they're in there correctly.

Um The last part about this is that you are supposed to be turning this into a

Legislature legislator.

And so that requires a little bit of research on

your end of what state legislators do we have,

that could be important for you to be in contact with regarding this issue and all

you have to do is have proof that you provided this to the to the legislator.

Whether that is

an email screenshot that you can send me,

I don't expect the legislator to respond to you if they do wonderful.

But I don't expect that they will.

And so I just want proof that you provided it to them all

of that information is public knowledge on the state web statehouse website,

so you can get all of their contact information from there.

Okay, so again, white papers due this weekend,

The next thing that you have coming up is

the stakeholder meeting in a three page summary.

So that stakeholder meeting um needs to be

completed with the summary by November 28,

and so again at midnight and the stakeholder, how to pick your stakeholder,

your stakeholder can be anybody who is connected to

your issue that you have chosen,

whether that is a teacher who has Children whose

had Children with incarcerated parents in their classroom,

someone who's had an incarcerated loved one, A police officer,

that could be a stakeholder for those of you doing SCL curriculums, that would be,

you know,

teachers would be great to try to contact or even parents who have had an

investment in how their Children have been

learning that type of curriculum in school,

maybe, you know,

someone whose child was severely bullied and

they may be a good resource stakeholder for

you about why is it important to have social emotional learning in school settings?

Um

you really with that one, you know, you can kind of pick anything school discipline.

Um Same thing as you know,

teachers obviously are going to be a great resource for you.

Um resource officers that are connected to schools, Principals administrators,

the secretaries who often are also

helping monitor those coming through discipline,

parents who had Children disciplined if you are going to choose

a child in any of these things to be talking to,

you have to have parent permission to do.

So I would definitely recommend staying away from that and really

trying to only talk to adults for any of these stakeholders,

but you're meeting should really be about how are they impacted?

How does the topic that you have been assigned impacted in their life

and what are pros and cons and things they've seen done really well,

what are things they've seen done really poorly and how what are their ideas and

then at the end you're going to be writing a three page academic paper.

So as three page summary that is going to be turned into me,

I'm the only one has to see it.

Your stakeholder does not have to see it.

Um but in that summary paper I want you to be including

not only your meeting and what you learned from this meeting,

but also any um I want you to bring in some coarse

material similar to what we just did with our concept check paper,

um but not as not as heavily focused on that,

but bringing in some different resources to say, oh yeah,

like this is a child development

um theory or something that I noted during this conversation with the stakeholder.

So again, that's due November 28.

All of these are going to be do via email to me

um so that that's how you're just going to turn them in,

you're not going to turn them in through blackboard.

Okay, the last thing, the social media campaign, this one is due December five.

So this is kind of your culmination of this entire project,

the audience for this is the general public,

that is your audience for social media campaign.

I want to reiterate, you do not have to actually

implement

this social media campaign.

I do not expect you to create a facebook or social

media or any form of social media tic Tac's the instagram,

anything like that.

You do not have to create it. All you have to do is design how you would implement it.

So your audience is the general public,

why is it important that the general public is invested in this

topic? Because it is that all of these things affect us globally,

your design.

I want to you know,

this is your chance to be really creative and

colorful and really bring in different design elements.

What how would you do this? Would you have

video part of this and what would that, what would be in the video?

Would you have different graphics or different, you know, would you include like

stickers that are really popular? Like the vinyl stickers?

Would you want, how would it be designed that you would get the word out?

Would there be a catch phrase or a hashtag or

something associated with this to get that word spread further?

Um

and so you I don't also expect you to be graphic designers,

you could draw it on a piece of paper and scan that

in about like what it would kind of look like for you,

what the colors would be, all of that kind of thing.

And then the last part is that business plan in quotes. It's not a real business plan.

Just type thinking about that in your brain, about how would you implement this?

How would you get this word out?

What are all of the steps and that's what's going to be turned in

is not only the design piece of it of what does this look like?

How can I visualize what you're doing?

But then what are the step by step things that you would

be doing for this social media campaign to get the word out?

Where would you be posting things?

How often would you be posting them, what time of day would be great.

Are there certain businesses or organizations in town

you would partner with to really get a blast

out there so that you can raise the consciousness

level about this issue to the general public.

So that is the culmination. Again, I don't do not expect you to actually

implement this and I just realized that social is missing the l.

At the end of the top of that. So sorry about that. But

I hope that this answers questions from those of you that

I have not heard from again many of the U.

I have spoken to about these different uh elements to your project.

So if there are any questions please reach out to me again.

The white paper is due this weekend.

Thank you.

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