Social media advocacy is one of the quickest and simplest ways to spread positive and effective information about CTE to your Members of Congress, your communities and the media. For this week’s advocacy task, reach out to your federal policymakers via social media to express the importance of investing in CTE!
If you are already active on major social media platforms, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, you are all set up for this week’s advocacy task. If not, visit our Week Two webpage to learn more about setting up social media accounts.
TAKE ACTION: Draft at least one social media post to share with your federal policymakers expressing the importance of investing in CTE to:
- Upskill and reskill workers to respond to the ever-changing demands of a pandemic-impacted economy.
- Include specific examples about how you are equipping your students to succeed.
- Help institutions recover from the financial demands of the pandemic and build on innovations that emerged during the last year.
- Discuss challenges you have faced and innovations you have made. As educators and administrators, you know your program best!
- Develop the educators, program content and flexibility necessary to help meet future workforce needs.
- Explain how you are meeting workforce needs in your program!
Click HERE for a menu of sample posts for each platform to help you get started, but feel free to create your own!
Make sure to follow ACTE’s profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram; ACTE’s Public Policy Department also maintains @ACTEpolicy, an account on Twitter to follow the latest news and updates in the CTE policy sphere. This account is where we will be promoting your advocacy efforts!
For complete instructions for this week’s task, click HERE. If you haven’t had an opportunity to complete last week's advocacy task yet, you still have time to do so! Your advocacy is valuable at any time.
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