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Advocacy 2.0 Creating a New OS for Advocacy Carol Anne Costible-Heming, Univ. of North Texas Dawn Samples, Lexington School District One, SC #SCOLT13 www.SCOLT.org SCOLT 2013 Birmingham, AL
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Advocacy 2.0Creating a New
OS for Advocacy
Carol Anne Costible-Heming, Univ. of North TexasDawn Samples, Lexington School District One, SC
#SCOLT13www.SCOLT.org
SCOLT 2013 Birmingham, AL
Essential questions for today
• Identify – What is advocacy?• What builds advocacy on a daily
basis? • What is our vision or goal for
advocating in our schools/districts? • What are our advocacy needs?• What are our advocacy resources?
Goals for today• Identify/discuss what we are already
doing right.• Identify what we might be capable of
doing more of immediately.• Identify what our needs are to make
advocacy more systematic and systemic in our daily operations.
• Walk away with new ideas, a plan and a reflection of our role as advocators for WL’s
Every drop makes a difference…
• What are we currently doing in our school/districts to advocate for our programs? For our profession? For the need to learn another language?
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Poll: Is this your first SCOLT conference?
Poll: Have you ever gone to a school board mee...
Poll: Have you ever presented at a board meeti...
Poll: Have you ever voted in an election?
Poll: Have you ever gone to a PTA meeting?
Poll: Have you ever gone to your department ch...
Poll: Have you ever held parent informtion mee...
Poll: Have you ever advocated to recruit for l...
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Poll: Do you attend your state conference?
Poll: Do you attend your state AAT meeting?
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What does this data tell us so far about our daily advocacy
practices?
What are our advocacy needs?
Think, pair, share…
• Classroom/student level?• Course recruitment?• Building level?• District level?• Community/parents level?• State? Region? National levels?
Share out
Readily available resources
National Level• JNCL-NCLIS• ACTFL Advocacy Resources• NELL• NADSFL• NCSSFL• US House of Representatives• US SenateSee information from Dr. Bill Rivers, JNCL on SCOLT’s wikispace
(scolt13.wikispaces.com)
Regional Level• SCOLT• Central States Conference on Langua
ge Teaching
(All regional conferences – NECTFL, SWCOLT, etc…)
State Level• AAFLT• AFLTA• FFLA• FLAG• FLANC• FLAVA• KWLA• LFLTA• MFLA
State Level, cont.• SCFLTA• TFLA• TFLTA• Virgin Islands Modern Foreign
Language Association• WVFLTA
Language Specific• AATF• AATG• AATI• AATJ• AATSEEL• AATSP• CLASS• CLTA
What are your successes?
• You have 3 minutes to brainstorm and write down as MANY successes you have had OR HEARD OF, with regard to advocacy at any level.
SHARE OUT
Reflection
• What is our vision?• How do we address these
needs?
What is your plan…
• When you walk away from this conference, what will you commit to trying upon your return to advocate for world language?
• Who do you need to contact? • What information do you need to know
more about? • How can SCOLT or your state organization
assist you in this plan?
Q & A
Contact us:• Dawn Samples, Coordinator for World Languages
and Partial Immersion, Lexington School District One, SCo [email protected]
• Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, University of North Texas
