Module 1: Advocacy & Leadership

Module 1 Video
Table of contents
Overview
PLE 1: Surfacing assumptions about advocacy and leadership
- an active listening experience on assumptions
- discussion of the assumptions surfaced through active listening discussions
- reflections on the process
PLE 2: Investigating an issue or priority
- Selecting an actionable issue
- Collecting and using of data from multiple primary and secondary sources and types on social, economical and cultural conditions
- Identifying current approaches and practices
- Identifying current assumptions and pressures pertaining to the selected issue or problem
PLE 2b: Analyzing critical policy influences and potential levers for change
- Brainstorm sources of evidence to identify the primary policy making systems and influences on an issue or problem
- Mapping the decision making systems for an issue or problem
- Identify the policy levers that undergird your issue or problem and the potential levers that could be used to influence opportunity
- Reflection
PLE 3: Mapping interests and forming coalitions
- Case study discussion of opportunities and strategies for initiating coalition building around a policy or action
- Political mapping exercise
- Exploring how to build a coalition
PLE 4: Creating a persuasive argument
- Discussion about a persuasive argument
- Develop expectations for an effective persuasive argument
- Drafting a persuasive argument
- Follow up activity
- Field work extension
PLE 5: Taking action (planning for change)
- Discussion about strategic planning as a form of advocacy
- Introduction to action planning
- Drafting a POME-based action plan for selected advocacy-related strategy
- Comparison and reflection
PLE 5A: Engaging action (direct advocacy)
- Explore means of advocating on behalf of children and schools
- Review video clip examples of advocacy
- Develop an advocacy plan for an issue or topic
PLE 6: Conducting an after action review
- Learn about after action review
- Tryout after action review
- Document what they accomplished