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Civic Engagement Action Plan

There are various ways to engage with issues including investigating, dialoguing, voicing perspectives, and taking action. The document provides a matrix for envisioning next steps in each of these areas for a given issue. For investigating the issue, next steps proposed are watching news coverage and researching articles from multiple sources. For dialoguing, proposed steps are discussing the issue with family/friends and via social media/forums. To voice perspectives, options include expressing views on social media and to family/friends. Finally, taking action could involve writing to legislators about one's perspective or participating in peaceful protests regarding the issue.

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Civic Engagement Action Plan

There are various ways to engage with issues including investigating, dialoguing, voicing perspectives, and taking action. The document provides a matrix for envisioning next steps in each of these areas for a given issue. For investigating the issue, next steps proposed are watching news coverage and researching articles from multiple sources. For dialoguing, proposed steps are discussing the issue with family/friends and via social media/forums. To voice perspectives, options include expressing views on social media and to family/friends. Finally, taking action could involve writing to legislators about one's perspective or participating in peaceful protests regarding the issue.

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Envisioning Next Steps Matrix:

There are various ways that you can learn about and engage with an issue that matters to you. You can:

● Investigate, or learn more about the issue

● Dialogue with and listen to the perspectives of others

● Voice or express your perspective or ideas about it

● Take action to address the issue

Envision how you might use online tools, sources, social media sites for these practices. Write 2 next
steps or action steps in each box of the matrix below.

Investigate = To analyze and evaluate Dialogue = To engage in dialogue, learn about


information in order to learn about and multiple perspectives, and give feedback to
investigate pressing civic and political issues. those with influence.

What could you do next to learn more about this What could you do next to discuss and listen to
issue? others’ perspectives about this issue?

1) One thing I could do to learn


more about this topic is to 1) I could talk to my family
watch the news when the topic members/ friends on the
is talked about. subject to hear what they
2) Another thing I could do to think/their thoughts.
learn more about this topic is 2) I could talk to people over
to research articles on social media/forum boards for
defunding the police from their perspectives on the
multiple websites/sources. matter.

Voice = To express your perspective and Take action = To get involved and work with
circulate information about issues that matter to others to accomplish civic and political goals.
you.
What could you do next to take action and
What could you do next to voice or express your address this issue in some way?
perspective about this issue with your 1) I could write my legislation on
communities?
the topic and share my
1) I could express my perspective perspective to them that way.
over social media platforms to 2) I can go to peaceful protests
audiences there. involving the subject and share
2) I could express my perspective my opinions that way by
to my family and friends at marching peacefully.
appropriate times.

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