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CAN Coordinator Resources

As a CAN Coordinator, you are one of CEC's premier grassroots advocates. To help you prepare for this role, CEC has developed the following resources to assist you in starting or enhancing your grassroots network.

• Introduction for new CAN Coordinators
• CAN ID Form
• How to obtain emails
• Responsibilities of a CAN Coordinator
• CEC's Responsibilities to CAN Coordinators 
• Information Documents:
  • Strengthening Grassroots Advocacy: A Toolkit for the Everyday Activist 
  • Key Ingredients to a Healthy CAN
  • Facilitating Political Activity
  • Do's and Don'ts When Dealing with Elected Officials
  • Legislative Action Center Flyer
  • Congressional Liaison Program
• CAN Training Materials
  • ^NEW! CEC's Legislative Action Center
  • ^NEW! Expanding Your Reach: Coalition Building and Networking with Other Organizations
  • ^NEW! Maximizing Your Potential on Capitol Hill
  • ^NEW! Walk Down Civics Memory Lane
  • ^NEW! You're a New CAN Coordinator...Now What?
  • Advocacy for Everyone - Meeting and Building Relationships with Legislators and Staff!
  • How to Conduct a Training Workshop for Your Unit
  • Establishing, Building, Organizing and Maintaining a CAN Network 
• Advocacy Presentations
  • ^NEW! Rewriting ESEA: Overhaul or Overkill?
  • ^NEW! Federal Budget and Appropriations
  • ^NEW! Work Force Investment Act Reauthorization 
  • ^NEW! Looking in the Crystal Ball: The Future of the CAN Network
  • ^NEW! School Choice Initiatives: Impact on Students With Exceptionalities 
  • ^NEW! Restraint and Seclusion: What are the Controversial Issues and What are we Likely to See at the Federal Level? 
  • ^NEW! UN Convention on Rights of Persons With Disabilities
  • ^NEW! The Rise of Professionalism in Education?
    • ^NEW! Teacher Performance Assessment
    • ^NEW! Teacher Quality
    • ^NEW! Recruitment & Retention
  • Navigating your way through the Legislative Process 
  • Influencing Policymaking at a Grassroots Level
  • You Too Can Become a Political Advocate 
  • Activating Grassroots Advocates 
• Congressional Directory
• Advocacy One Pagers
  • Federal Appropriations Process
  • Tips for Organizing a Successful Advocacy Phone Call
  • Tips for Organizing a Successful Advocacy Visit
  • The Legislative Process
  • Top 5 Advocacy Tips
• Past Advocacy Campaigns: Summer/Fall 2006 - Get Out The Vote Campaign