Make a bigger impact by involving your community.
Here is a list of ways that you can help us make this annual event a success from the start!
- Get others in your community involved. Contact local celebrities, sports teams, politicians, and authors, and invite them to take part in your event and activities.
- Contact teachers and administrators at other local activities and tell them about RCAA. Offer tips on how to include the DCMP activity in their own Read Across America events. If you have the resources and time to do so, offer to stop in and host the event yourself!
- Generate a story about the event on your local television news or in your local newspaper. The NEA has posted a great list of PR tools for Read Across America that you may want to take a look at before making contacts. The DCMP has a press release to announce RCAA.
- Distribute DCMP flyers to teachers, librarians, special education coordinators, and school administrators.
- Tell them about RCAA and the DCMP partnership with the NEA’s Read Across America.
- Include an article about the events you are planning in your school’s newspaper or newsletter to parents.
- Join the RCAA Flickr group and use the photos there to promote your RCAA event on your Web site or blog.
- Promote your RCAA event on your organization’s Facebook, MySpace, or other social networking profile. Utilize a free event promotion service like Eventful.com or prohmote.com to spread the word!
- You are also welcome to include our two articles on the event (“Read Captions Across America!” and “Reading Captions Wakes Up the Brain Cells!”).
- Place the RCAA posters and flyers in prominent, high-traffic areas in schools, libraries, or other locations where Read Across America events are to be held. To download or order the poster, please visit the DCMP Web site.
- Send a link to the RCAA Events & Activities guide to everyone in your network, school, and listservs (or download and e-mail this PDF version of the Events & Activities guide). Do a search for other organizations or education representatives that you can send this information to as well.