Messaging

Your nomination messaging needs to provide enough details that the audience understands the purpose of the campaign and include a call to action. Many tools allow you to schedule posts, news articles, and announcements in advance. Choose the peak time when many of your users are accessing the platform.

Here is an example message that you can choose to copy and edit to suit your selection strategy, collection protocol, and distribution plan:

Our School District is excited to join districts all across the region and the Greater Ozarks Cooperating School Districts in celebrating Teacher Proud Tuesday on the second Tuesday of every month. The purpose of the Teacher Proud Tuesday campaign is to lift up and celebrate the profession and those currently serving, to recruit and inspire candidates to consider teaching, and to inform communities, business leaders and policymakers on the importance of public education.

We need your help in selecting teachers to spotlight each month. To nominate an outstanding teacher please submit this form (link the form). Join the celebration! On the second Tuesday of each month, watch for the #TeacherProud hashtag on your favorite social media channels to like and share the celebrations.

Artwork

Design graphics that suit your style and branding, are appropriately sized for the channel, and/or that coordinate with an existing program.

Templates

Here are some templates of various sizes created in Canva that you can personalize. You can add your school logo, change the color of the background, and text. You do not have to use these templates. Click the link to generate a copy of these templates in your Canva account.

Banner for newsletter, website announcement, or email message

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Image for Facebook and Instagram that could also be used on a website or in a newsletter

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Image for Twitter, that could also be used on a website or in a newsletter

Teacher Proud Tuesday

App Options

If you don’t have a Canva account, we recommend making one as this is a helpful tool for all of your communication/graphic needs! It is easy to use and they offer both free (free pro account for educators 😲) and paid accounts. Access the Canva Help Resources to get started. If you don’t want to use Canva, you could use Google Slides to create artwork, setting a custom size for the slide to suit your communication channel, and exporting the slide as an image. Adobe Express is another option that offers free and paid accounts.

💡 TIP: If your staff is not included in the nominating audience, be sure to inform your staff about Teacher Proud Tuesdays, the purpose of the campaign, how your District will be participating, the plan for spotlighting teachers, and how teachers can participate.

Call to Action

Update your Teacher Proud Tuesday Playbook, add your messages with artwork for each channel.