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The rubric is designed to provide guidelines for teachers who are participating in a Personalized Professional Learning course. In order to receive .5 in-service credit for the course the educator must "Meet Expectations" in all criteria.

Student is to create a power point presentation of 10 slides (excluding introductory, reference and concluding page) that discusses the problem, introduce the advocacy materials, and make a call to action. Slides are to include accurate information and pictures. Student must present information & power point presentation to the class. Information must be in depth; student will give appropriate credit to where information was gathered - NO PLAGIARISM. Must be STUDENT ORIGINAL. References must be listed i on the reference slide. The power point should have speaker notes that correlate to the written work submitted.

Students are to choose an issue from their community (local, national, global) that they care enough about to advocate. They are to then write an advocacy letter for change, carefully considering their audience and using primary and secondary information as evidence to support their arguments. They must have an appropriate call to action and correct business letter format. The letter will be sent via e-mail to the public official selected by the student.

Students will create several resources to be used to raise awareness of their cause.

Advocacy: Taking action to influence others to address a local, national or international concern.