Be A Daily Language Advocate

Be a Language Advocate Every Day

Being an advocate does not have to take much of your time, but every minute you spend could be worth 5 times that if your program is in jeopardy.

• Attention! Are You Seeking a Position with Excellent Long-term Benefits? Be an Advocate! — by Mary Lynn Redmond

Reaching your various publics

• Publicize your program – buttons, brochures

Advocacy in the classroom and in the school community

Colleagues

• Involve in classroom
• Send out blurbs about early language learning

Administrators

• Invite into the classroom.
• Ask to help with special events such as a fantasy trip.
• Make copies of student work and put in their box.

School Board/Superintendent

• Invite them to your classroom.
• Have children write post cards in the target language about something they are studying.
• Send examples of student work: PowerPoint presentations, etc.

Parents

• Invite them to your classroom.
• Make calls when things are going right!
• Send home postcards.
• Send home newsletters.
• Set up a website.
• Add blurbs to the school newsletter.
• Send home student work in bunches with an explanation attached.
• INFORMANCES (An informance is different from a performance because it is a “normal” language class.)

Advocacy beyond the school

• Take your students out into the community.
• Invite the newspaper to class.
• Set up your own website.