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Local Advocacy
One of the first steps in advocacy is making your program and student successes visible to your district, administrators, parents, and community.
- Read this article from ACTFL’s The Language Educator Marketing Your Program as a Matter of Survival. Join ACTFL and you'll also receive monthly editions with additional tips and ideas.
- Read this list of tips from Massachussetts Foreign Language Association's Advocacy page about how to better work with your local newspapers and media outlets.
For updates about current world language advocacy, visit
- ACTFL's Advocacy Resources page
- Joint National Committee for Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies (JCNL-NICLS) site www.languagepolicy.org.
- Follow Central States' Pinterest Board about Languages and Language Advocacy
IWLA Initiative to Add World Languages to the Iowa Core Curriculum
IWLA's Position Paper
As a follow up to the letter-writing campaign, a position paper was approved by the Executive Board to be submitted to business and education partners in order to garner support for our initiative. You can read the position paper by clicking the link below or by downloading it.
Read Online | Download Position Paper[PDF] [DOC]
Sample Letters
The following are drafts of sample letters that can be used to contact any business or university personnel that we are willing to contact. The letters ask for support and request letters of support to be sent to our organization to be presented to the Iowa Department of Education.
Business [DOC]
University - Sample A [DOC]
University - Sample B [DOC]
Together we can all make a difference!
Loni O'Grady, Advocacy Chair
logrady@waukeeschools.org
Carrie Morris, Secretary