Firstly, you’ll need to find out the names and contact info for all your local MPP candidates! Secondly, please take one (or more!) of the following steps to apply the pressure needed to every candidate in your riding to get them to sign the Fix Our Schools Pledge.
1) On Social Media:
- Tweet a photo related to school disrepair and tag your local MPP candidates
- Include this caption when you tweet your photo: “Calling all Ontario MPP candidates: Have YOU signed the Fix Our Schools Pledge?” and use the tag @Fix_Our_Schools
2) On the Campaign Trail:
- We’ve made it easy for you to ask your local MPP candidates about school disrepair when they knock on your door, or at events like debates in your riding. Just click here for details!
3) Via Email, Phone or In-Person:
- We’ve made it easy for you to contact your local MPP candidates by email by drafting an email you could use!
- We’ve also made it easy for you to call your local MPP candidates on the phone by drafting a script you could use!
- And we’ve also made it easy for you to set up up an in-person meeting with each of your local MPP candidates by putting together this information booklet for MPP candidates
Download and print our campaign resources, or email us if you would like hard copies sent to you.
Use social media to spread and amplify our message:
- Follow us on Facebook & Twitter
- Retweet, comment & like our Tweets
- Share, like & comment on our Facebook
- Subscribe to our e-newsletter and forward our e-newsletters to your network or share on social media
- Share information directly to your network via email or social media. To make this easy, we’ve crafted some wording you can use!
Share the Fix Our Schools campaign with your personal networks and/or your local School Council:
- Print copies of the Fix Our Schools Flyer and accompanying Fix Our Schools_Pledge to introduce the campaign to parents at your next School Council meeting.
- Invite parents to subscribe to the Fix Our Schools newsletter and to engage with us on social media (see bullet 1!)
- You may also like to use this powerpoint presentation (complete with detailed speaking notes) to introduce parents at your school to the Fix Our Schools campaign and encourage their active involvement!
- Suggest that a group of you work together to encourage your local MPP candidates to sign the Fix Our Schools Pledge (see bullet 2!)
Provide content we can use to build momentum in the campaign to Fix Our Schools:
Share your personal story with us about how school conditions impact your children, family and community- Send us photos of disrepair in your local school.