NCSS Advocacy Toolkit

NCSS Advocacy Toolkit

Advocacy Modules

These modules are professional development modules to support a comprehensive approach to advocacy for social studies.

Module 1: Advocacy 101

Module 2: Building Your Message

Module 3: Creating Your Advocacy Plan

Module 4: Advocacy at the State/Local Level

Module 5: Advocacy at the Federal Level

Module 6: Sustaining Your Advocacy Plan


The NCSS Advocacy Toolkit is an educational resource and planning tool of the National Council for the Social Studies that has been created and developed for non-profit educational and research purposes with the objective of advocating for social studies education. The Toolkit can be freely used for these non-profit purposes. 

The Toolkit includes links to materials that may be copyrighted, and the Toolkit makes fair use of these materials for educational purposes. Those who wish to use any of these materials for purposes that go beyond fair use should obtain permission from the copyright owner