Become a Leader in Our Education's National Youth Movement to Improve Public Education!
Does it bother you that there are actually schools in America that have classrooms that look like this? Do you think that in the richest nation in the world we should also have the best schools in the world? YOU can help make a difference by volunteering with Our Education!
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Address |
Wherever Your School Is, New Orleans, LA 70112 |
Interest Area |
Advocacy & Human Rights, Children & Youth, Education & Literacy |
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This is an Ongoing Opportunity. |
Description
NOTE: You MUST be enrolled in junior high, high school, or college in order to volunteer for this listing!
Our Education is pleased to announce our ground-breaking, "A Million Voices, One Right" national student petition campaign, which is a youth centered and youth-led effort to gather hundreds of thousands of student signatures in support of guaranteeing all American children the right to a high quality public education. (See http://www.OurEd.org for more info).We are looking for motivated, passionate, and civically-engaged young people ages 13-24 to lead "Our Education Petition Drives" in their schools and / or communities. The goal of the petition drives is to increase youth awareness about the need for dramatic improvement in our schools and provide youth with an opportunity to become involved in a youth-led, grassroots campaign to make a difference in the issue that affects us most: our education.
A Petition Drive Director would be responsible for building a team of students who are dedicated to the cause, creating a plan for how to gather as many signatures for the petition as possible from your fellow youth, and executing this plan. Student leaders who volunteer with this effort will be eligible to receive community service hours towards graduation, club requirements, or other honors written by staff at Our Education. Students who successfully lead a petition drive will also have their name and school featured on Our Education's wall of fame at www.oured.org/pages/wall-of-fame . Those who display a high level of dedication and effort will also receive consideration for higher level involvement in Our Education as regional directors, National Student Conference invitees, and other important strategic positions.
Our Education staff will work with you to craft a plan for your school / community and provide you with the resources (blank petition sheets, fliers, etc.) necessary to complete the task. Please contact us by clicking on the red "I Want to Help!" button at the top of the screen. A member of our team will then contact you with more information about how you can get started as a student leader in this important cause!
Skills
> Student should support the values of fairness, trust, and caring in our society
> Student must enjoy talking about and working for a cause you believe in!Our Education
Our Education runs two primary programs. The first is a national youth engagement campaign to build student awareness, interest, and action... (Read More)
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