Classroom Visits
Classroom Visits
Learn how to effectively utilize the classroom visit strategy to educate students on civic engagement and register them to vote if eligible.
The classroom visit strategy is best executed by student leaders. Learn more about how to recruit and train student leaders on our Student Leadership Opportunities page!
Use these tools to facilitate voter registration and civic education.
Whether it’s through one-on-one conversations or small group sessions, you can use these resources to equip every student with the information they need to participate in our democracy, and register to vote if eligible.
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The Civic Engagement Packet
Use the Ask Every Student Civic Engagement Packet to streamline and simplify an inclusive process to register many students to vote, check for errors, and follow up with students as needed. Thanks to the Voto Latino Foundation, there is also a Spanish version of this packet linked in the resource.
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Voting as a Student 101 Presentations
This template presentation, designed for either in-person or virtual use, helps you meet students where they are at and address the questions that they are most likely to wonder about participating in our democracy.
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Pledge Cards
Pledge cards are a simple, inclusive, and highly effective way to track voter registrations and engagement, collect contact information for follow-up, and recruit more volunteers for your initiative.
Classroom Visits at Columbia College Chicago
Learn how Columbia College Chicago integrates voter registration into their first-year experience course class, “Big Chicago”.
This resource was created by Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin from Columbia College Chicago as part of the 2022 Ask Every Student Codesigner Cohort.
Columbia Votes “Big Chicago” Classroom Visit Guide
Learn from Columbia College Chicago about how to replicate their process for integrating voter registration into classroom visits that includes:
Identifying your core curriculum class(es)
Reaching out to professors
Coordinating which students will visit each class
Preparing professors for the visit
Visiting the class
Columbia Votes “Why Register to Vote” Presentation
During the Columbia Votes classroom visits, the Voter Registration Geniuses begin by presenting on the importance of registering to vote before guiding students through the voter registration and voting process. Every campus context is unique, but you can check out their presentation for some inspiration on how Columbia Votes motivates students to register to vote in the classroom!