CTE Social Media Plan

Office of Career and Technical Education Social Media Plan 2021-22 School Year Jakki Vink Wiseman Professional Development Education Associate

CTE SOCIAL MEDIA VISION The Office of Career and Technical Education has the social media vision is to be: ● ● ● ●

Better connected with our key demographic - students ages 13-19 Showcase CTE students *,teachers and administrators and their programs and accomplishments An increased connection with business and industry partners Use social media to spread the CTE message

CTE SOCIAL MEDIA GOALS ●

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To increase weekly engagement on our social media platforms by 40% over the course of this school year (2021-2022) Baseline numbers to be collected the first two weeks of the school year. Numbers will assessed at the end of the month, beginning September 2022 to chart progress.

To encourage and assist all Career and Technical Education centers across the state to have a social media presence. At this time 68% of the centers have at least one social media account.

We would like to increase this to 85% or better by the end of this school year. A bi-monthly check in will take place to assess attainment of this goal To increase the number of posts that spotlight the importance of the relationship between our programs and business and industry. The goal is to have at least three posts a month that focus on this area.

Color Palette for Social Media Posts and related graphics. These colors were pulled from the agency seal logo.

Frames for Social Media Posts Please note, these now also include the agency seal.

CTEINSC This is our name on all of our social media platforms.

CTE HASHTAGS These hashtags will be used in each post.

1. #cteinsc 2. #futurereadycte 3. #connectingclassroomstoindustry #cteinsc will be included in ALL posts. Numbers 2 and 3 will be included as space allows on Twitter.

If a school district/CTE center is part of the post, they will also be tagged/mentioned.

The hashtag #cteinsc has been researched to make sure that it is not associated with any other organizations or any content that would be considered controversial.

These hashtags have been shared with the districts and career centers that have social media accounts. They have been asked to use them in their posts along with their own hashtags.

THEME DAY HASHTAGS #WorkBasedLearningWednesday or #WBLWednesday Each week there will be posts focusing on Work Based Learning.

Engagement in this area is one of our identified goals for this school year. These posts and/or stories will also be added to the story highlights on Instagram.

#CTEFactFriday This hashtag will be used to highlight key pieces of data that apply to Career and Technical Education. Sources will be our own department data - verified and supplied by our data team, ACTE cited data, US Department of Education cited data and Advanced CTE cited data.

An outline or solid fill shape of the state will be used with state related numbers for visual interest. See example below.

#MakingADifferenceMonday This will be an occasionally occurring post, where we focus on an award winning CTE teacher, director or other related position.

This would be started by doing a deeper dive with our EBS adult award winner and Katrina Haynes, an ACTE Teacher of the Year. #CTSOTuesday This will be a once to twice a month post, focusing on the different Career and Technical Student organizations. The posts will highlight what each organization does and the advantages of belonging to one. We have at least one student this year who is holding a national level position in one of these groups. A student* spotlight would be a great post.

STUDENT GENERATED CONTENT Several Graphic Media/AV programs across the state are having students write and film Tik Tok videos about their programs and CTE in general.

These videos would be posted to our Instagram stories and also linked to an Instagram story highlight. These would be tagged with #TikTokTuesday or #TikTokThursday The guidelines below would be shared with any teachers who are interested in submitted content for us to post.

Content would be submitted for approval before posting.

Content would only be used on CTE social media platforms.

TIK TOK SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: ●

You must obtain written approval from your CTE Center/District CTE Director to submit footage for consideration.

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Video message must be about a CTE career cluster, specific career training and/or the advantages of taking CTE courses.

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All student featured in the video must have a signed media release form* that will be submitted along with the proposed footage.

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Any music used in the video must be copyright/royalty free.

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No music with profanity can be used in the footage.

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No inappropriate or suggestive body movements

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Any written content needs to be spelled correctly and grammatically correct.

REPOSTING CTE CONTENT Our CTE social media platforms follow all the known accounts for CTE centers and schools with CTE programs in the state.

These feeds are checked on a daily basis.

Facebook content will be liked and reshared.

Twitter content will be liked and retweeted.

Instagram content will be shared to our page using the Repost app.

All original content will be included and a congratulatory message might be added if the situation applies.

CONTENT FROM ACTE AND ADVANCED CTE Applicable content that is created by these two national organizations will be used and reshared as needed and appropriate.

ACTE - https://www.acteonline.org/ Advanced CTE - https://careertech.org/

HOLIDAY/EVENTS The following holidays will have posts on our social media platforms.

All graphics will come from royalty/copyright free sources.

09/6/2021 Labor Day 11/07/21 Daylight Saving Time Ends 11/11/21 Veterans Day 11/25/21 Thanksgiving 12/20/21 Seasons Greetings 01/01/22 Happy New Year 01/17/22 Martin Luther King Day 02/14/22 Valentine’s Day 3/13/22 Daylight Saving Time Begins 04/22/22 Earth Day 05/30/22 Memorial Day 06/19/22 Juneteenth 07/04/22 Independence Day

CTE RELATED RECOGNITIONS/EVENTS The following CTE related recognitions and events will have posts on our social media platforms. All content will relate to associated CTE courses, programs or clusters. All graphics will come from royalty/copyright free sources.

October - National Cyber Security Month November - National STEM Day November - National Entrepreneur Day November - Small Business Saturday December - Focus on Soft Skills December - CS Week January - Law Enforcement Appreciation February - CTE Month March - Women in Construction Week March - Women’s History Month - Non-traditional careers April - Lineman Appreciation Day May - Teacher Appreciation June - National HVAC Tech Day

*CTE STUDENT MEDIA RELEASE The plan is to use the form pictured below. If this form has been updated, please share it with us at your earliest convenience.