Yes, you can

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Yes, you can!

• Simple ways to showcase your students success
  and keep your language program funded

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Effective advocacy takes more than one week a
year
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National campaigns are helpful...
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...but alone, they rarely convince the people
who decide if FL will be taught at your school.
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Your students' work speaks for itself. Keep
their successes before the public early and often.
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Cooperative lessons with fellow
teachers (Students will talk about this lesson at
home!)
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Catch your students reading authentic texts
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Submit pictures to your school web page (after a
class skit)
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School board presentation
embedded movie here
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Students participate in immersion program in
Montreal
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Document student travel abroad Students present
trip report to the school board
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Always have your camera ready
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Use portfolios to document student progress
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Continuing education and leadership are valuable
advocacy
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BFP 12/4/05
Ask your local paper to cover important FL issues
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Use your local paper to keep your program before
the public
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Cultivate relationships with your school board
members
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Identify parents who believe in education and
will speak up for foreign language
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Have students enter the VFLA poster or essay
contest
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Winners meet the governor and lt. gov
Principals school board members can be invited!
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Request advocacy materials from VFLA
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Share timely articles with administrators and
school board members
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School board and town meeting presentations focus
on economic benefits of FL learning
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Show how knowing another language is relevant
locally
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Is it time to integrate FL into business classes?
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Middle and elementary school programs need even
more intensive PR
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Support early start of foreign language
BFP 12/1/05
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Take pictures and send home a class newsletter
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Get parents involved
Sixth grade sit-down French meal Parents and
teachers pitched in to make and serve food.
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Hey, Mom, look! They eat salad!
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Students sampled several new foods
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Make sure there is always something on display
for visitors
Open House
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Table display of 8th grade work for Open House
Night
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Bulletin board display of student work
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School Celebration of Success
assembly Kindergarten singing the days of the
week in French
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Keep brochures in the main office and library
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Advocacy on a grander scale
K-12 district-wide celebration featuring dance,
singing, recitation, theater, food tasting
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Connecticuts FL org. sponsors an annual event of
original rhymes by elementary and middle school
students
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Remember there are many people at all levels to
help you. Reach out!