Celebrate AEFL Week by engaging students in the classroom via writing their legislators as advocates for adult education programming!
Locate your House Representatives and Senators, and have students draft a letter to send!
How else are you involving students this week?
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I’m late to this discussion, but I began prepping my students in August when classes started. I built in civic engagement activities that helped build student leadership and advocacy. During AEFL Week, they contacted legislators and did an outreach campaign within our college. They shared why adult education is important to them. For the rest of the semester, they’ll continue that civic engagement work in class by focusing on a local issue of importance to them.
I think that the most impactful part of AEFL Week is not what we do that week but what we continue to do between AEFL Weeks. We can’t lose momentum. And we need to enervate student voices all year long.
This is such a good point, Erin. It was exciting to see things about AEFL everywhere I turned last week. Students, teachers, and administrators were raising their voices and connecting with each other across platforms. We need to hold on to that momentum.
Thanks so much for sharing, Erin! I agree that this is definitely something that should be done all year, not just for one week. Your students' campaign sounds like it definitely would build student leaders and advocates.