Right To Learn: Reform Education in CA!

Partner with Right To Learn

We all know that our youth understand what needs to change in our schools as well as anyone. YouthNoise is partnering with organizations, teachers, and young leaders to encourage high school and college age youth to bring their voices to California’s education reform movement in 2008. Starting November 1st, youth will be invited to share stories of their experiences in California’s public schools, and subsequently to offer solutions for the problems they name and take action to change California’s schools for the better -- all through an online system at www.RightToLearnCA.org.

YouthNoise will provide financial, technological, and creative support to the top ideas submitted by youth, and we'll connect them with community-based organizations and mentors to help them execute their visions on both local and statewide levels.

Organizations that partner with Right To Learn can help youth in two ways: first, by helping youth speak out about the challenges they face in getting a quality education by submitting testimonies online, and second, by working directly with youth to develop solutions and implement projects in their communities that lead to real change. Youth have a unique and creative perspective. Let’s help them use it to improve the school system in California!

Partnering with Right To Learn helps youth:

Actively engage in their own education
Develop technology, collaboration, leadership, and public speaking skills
Make concrete changes in their local school communities and effectively influence legislation to improve the educational system in California

Partnering with Right To Learn helps your organization:

Provide online and offline tools for engaging youth
Provide technology and incentives to help you effectively collect stories
Increase visibility through online and offline marketing materials
Provide support to youth in the organization to implement action and advocacy projects

Authors of the five most compelling stories, as rated by their peers and an expert panel, will win a laptop and a free trip to Sacramento to share their stories and ideas for change with key education decision-makers in the state.

Here are a few ways your organization can get involved, but we're always open to creative suggestions:

Send out a short e-mail note to your members advising them of the Right To Learn campaign and how to get involved
Hold a group brainstorming session about problems in schools and then ask youth to pick one story to tell on the Right To Learn site
Print out flyers (below) and distribute them at one of your meetings or, better yet, give everyone at the meeting 10 copies of the flyer to hang up all around town

Contact Us

If you're interested in what you hear or want to hear more, please contact us for more information. We're eager to work with as many organizations in California as possible to make this campaign a success. For partnership information, please contact:

Cristina Mitra, RTL Community Outreach Manager
info@youthnoise.org
415-375-3096

Teachers, staff, and school administrators, find more information here: Change Your School.

Downloads

Coming soon!

Youth Flyer: You can print out and use this 4"x6" flyer to alert youth in your programs about the Right To Learn campaign and how they can get involved.

Information Sheet: This overview of the Right To Learn campaign explains how information about how community-based organizations can participate. Please feel free to share this with anyone in your organization or other organizations who may be interested.

Web Banners: Is Right To Learn a program that aligns well with your organization's mission? Want to help raise awareness of education reform in California and RTL's story collection? Download any of these banners, put them on your site, and link back to www.RightToLearnCA.org.

Press Release: This press release went out to media statewide when the site was launched at the beginning of November. Additional releases will be sent as new functionality is added and when stories are distributed to education decision-makers.

(Note: we will be adding a link to curriculum connections, a sample lesson plan, and instructions for how to capture compelling stories soon.)

Right to Learn FAQ

Spread the Word

Change Your School

Collect Stories

Right to Learn Goes on Tour

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