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Advocacy Guide The Practice Space

WEBAdvocacy is an important leadership tool for using your voice to draw attention to significant issues, compel people to act, inspire positive change, and demonstrate caring toward …

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Resource 14: Activity Examples: Advocacy Simulations

WEBSchool Board Meeting: This activity is a way to practice for the real-world “public comment” section of any school board meeting. The day before this simulation, assign 5-7 students …

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Resource 1: Advocacy: The Heart of a Leader The Practice Space

WEBAdvocacy is at the heart of leadership and needs to be communicated with heart. As with many forms of public speaking, advocacy is less effective when the message is purely …

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Resource 8: Basic Advocacy Speech Structures The Practice Space

WEBThis involves communicating a problem and a solution. Your speech time is likely to be structured as one of the following examples (often interspersed with stories): Type 1: …

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Team The Practice Space

WEBCaitlin Healy is an educator with over 15 years of experience teaching youth of all ages, as well as adults, and has been at The Practice Space for over three years. Prior to joining …

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Debate Skills Drills and Warm-ups

WEBPractice fast note-taking. This activity can be done easily in pairs, but can also be in a whole group. By yourself, you can do the same thing by taking notes on a podcast, newscast, …

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LEADERS THAT LISTEN PUBLIC SPEAKING CURRICULUM …

WEBAdvocacy is an important leadership tool for using your voice to draw attention to significant issues, compel people to act, inspire positive change, and demonstrate caring toward …

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Resource 15: Class Project: “We Care” Group

WEBEffective communication skills are an important tool for advocating and speaking up for the needs of others. Beyond simply getting a point across, communication is a vehicle for …

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ADVOCACY GUIDE: RESOURCE 8

WEBThe purpose of an advocacy speech is to communicate passionately and clearly about a current, controversial subject that impacts your life and the lives of others. The content …

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The Art of Synthesis and Summary

WEBInstead, keep your summaries to what has already been debated. 13. Skill and Technique. Guidance. 5. Bring the Passion. Passionate delivery is important throughout the debate, …

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Persuasive Speaking—A Template for Presentation

WEBConnect to universal themes and frame the importance to everyone, not just to you. 5. Elaborate on the problem or issue at hand with examples and logical reasoning. 8. Tell …

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Resource 13: Small Steps for Educators: Advocacy in the Classroom

WEBSmall Steps for Educators: Advocacy in the Classroom. Classrooms should be places where students feel comfortable enough to practice their emerging advocacy skills, …

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Resource 13: Debate Skill Drills and Warm-Ups

WEBDebate Skill Drills and Warm-Ups. In full-fledged formats, debate can be overwhelming if you have not yet built up your spontaneous speaking and argumentation skills. Drills and …

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Resource 4: Theories About Facing the Fear The Practice Space

WEBTheories about Addressing Fear. The University of Minnesota’s “Communication in the Real World” lists three methods for facing the fear of public speaking: 1) systematic …

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Resource 11: Advocacy Sentence Starters The Practice Space

WEBAdvocacy Sentence Starters. This guide will help you translate what you are thinking into clear questions and comments, even when you are feeling nervous or uncomfortable …

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Resource 10: Advocating for Special Needs The Practice Space

WEBHelp people with disabilities process their experiences by being a sounding board and building self-awareness. Support their reflection on strengths and barriers. When you …

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Resource 2: Self-Advocacy and Challenging Inequities

WEBSelf-advocacy is an essential method for speaking up for yourself and navigating inequitable power dynamics to make your needs known. Opportunities to learn how to self …

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Resource 11: Vocal Technique for Presenters The Practice Space

WEBLift up the roof of your mouth and yawn to create more space in your mouth and allow for more vocal resonance (look up “exercises to raise soft palate”). Release your jaw and …

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Resource 2: Making Storytelling Inclusive and Equitable

WEBMaking Storytelling Inclusive and Equitable. There is a reason that oral storytelling is one of the oldest forms of communication. Unlike more structured remarks, stories offer an …

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