Shorter School Week Advocate (Colorado)

WorkFour Colorado is building the movement for a 32-hour workweek in our colorful state. We're looking for volunteers all across Colorado to engage in their local school districts and persuade faculty to participate in our pilot program.

💡 What You’ll Do

• Conduct research on schools that successfully implemented a 32-hour school week
• Work within your "School Week Committee" to brainstorm ideas/share the workload

Draft outreach messages and proposals:

• Things to consider while drafting your proposal: create a meal takeout system (making sure impoverished students are receiving meals on Fridays/weekends), financial assist parents who have children with disabilities (pay for care services), and find a way to protect Hispanic/Latino students from ICE (many of them probably don't want to be home alone)
• Create a PowerPoint presentation for in-person teacher unions, school board, and PTA meetings
• Handout brochures
• Invite guests (either in-person or on Zoom) who's district implemented a 32-hour school week
• Take photos while at the event and send them to the "Social Media Management Committee"
• Collect quantitative data
• Note: it will probably be easier to focus primarily on high schools, because teenagers don't need to be chaperoned 24/7

⏰ Time Commitment

• 3–5 hours/week (flexible)

🌍 Why Volunteer With WorkFour?

• Build a better future where students and teachers have more free time
• Combat the teacher resignation epidemic
• Give John D. Rockefeller the finger