Brochures
Contains two sample brochures from the Pittsburgh-area Remake Learning Days in 2016 and 2017 to serve as reference material. The unique composition of events, organizations, and sponsors in any new Remake Learning Days areas or regions would require creating local versions of such brochures from scratch.
Budgets
Remake Learning has provided two genericized spreadsheets as reference material do illustrate the financial approaches they take with Pittsburgh-area Remake Learning Days:
Cards
This directory contains a set of sample cards that Remake Learning has used in the Pittsburgh area to promote Remake Learning Days by mail and by leave-behind or “rack cards” that Neighborhood Navigators distribute in target neighborhoods to connect potential participants with nearby events. As with other similar promotional material, Remake Learning Days in new areas or regions would need to create new, tailored cards from scratch, reflecting the events and organizations unique to that area:
Checklists
These documents outline the starting point for anyone hoping to host a Remake Learning Days event, with detailed questions about what to consider. Remake Learning Days producers will require all prospective hosts to answer these questions as a way to ensure a consistently high standard of quality and thorough execution across a wide variety of events:
Emails
Communication between Remake Learning Days producers and event hosts happens frequently and for many reasons, such as confirming details and sending reminders. This directory contains screen shots of a variety of e-mails as samples so that producers can eavesdrop on these sorts of messages from past Remake Learning Days events. Producers of future Remake Learning Days will end up composing their own messages suited to the needs of managing the unique composition of hosts, events, and timing in their area.
- Sample email to host whose proposed event has been accepted [.png]
- Sample guidance e-mail to hosts [.png]
- Sample reminder e-mail to hosts [.png]
- Sample alert e-mail to hosts about supplies Remake Learning has shipped [.png]
- Template that producers can use when communicating with prospective hosts after an initial meeting about Remake Learning Days [.gdoc]
Flyers
Sample flyers from past Pittsburgh-area Remake Learning Days, serving as reference material. Producers of Remake Learning Days in new regions or areas will need to create their own custom flyers that reflect the unique composition of hosts, events, locations, and sponsors in their area.
Job descriptions
Producers will likely need help from a set of individuals each handling specific functions needed for organizing and operating Remake Learning Days. This directory contains two sample job descriptions to serve as examples when recruiting for these roles in new areas and regions. And though it is not a formal job description, there is a link below to a file in a different toolkit directory describing how someone serving as a Neighborhood Navigator should approach that role:
- Sample producer job description [.gdoc]
- Sample marketing job description [.gdoc]
- How to help as a Neighborhood Navigator [.gdoc]
Letters
In addition to raising local awareness, producers often need to raise awareness about Remake Learning Days at high levels of government. These are two sample letters as reference for how past producers have communicated with people in government positions:
Marketing
Reflecting the importance of building awareness of Remake Learning Days, this directory contains a number of templates, how-tos, and sample documents to help both producers and hosts clearly and consistently communicate with external audiences about Remake Learning Days:
- Meeting invitation template [.gdoc]
- Sample media contacts tracking spreadsheet [.gsheet]
- Sample media placement tracking summary [.gdoc]
- Sample talking points [.gdoc]
- Sample talking points, particularly for Neighborhood Navigators [.gdoc]
- Sample Remake Learning Days press release [.pdf]
- Sample press release for events [.gdoc]
- Sample quotes suitable for marketing [.pdf]
- Sample photo/video release form for event participants [.pdf]
- How-to guidelines for sharing Remake Learning Days on social media [.gdoc]
Neighborhoods
The “Neighborhood Navigator” concept has proven effective in building awareness directly with potential event participants in targeted neighborhoods. This directory contains just one document that outlines the role of a Neighborhood Navigator, but the links below point to other items relevant to Neighborhood Navigators in other toolkit directories as well:
- How to help as a Neighborhood Navigator [.gdoc]
- Sample talking points, particularly for Neighborhood Navigators [.gdoc]
Overview
Contains documents that introduce Remake Learning Days and provide basic guidance about fundamental concepts and terminology:
Posters
Sample poster from past Remake Learning Days, useful as a reference when producers in new areas and regions need to create a custom poster suited to the unique events and sponsors in their area:
Presentations
Presentation template using Remake Learning Days branding:
Registration
Remake Learning Days typically uses Eventbrite as a platform for handling event registration. Whether or not participants have registered for an event, hosts might also want to be sure to capture contact information for anyone who shows up at their event. This directory contains information relevant for both aspects of event registration:
Reports
Producers typically compile performance data of many different kinds and synthesize it into a report that summarizes Remake Learning Days for a particular year. The audience for such reports can be broad, including sponsors (and potential sponsors), government officials, local supporting organizations, media, and more. This directory provides two samples for reference:
- Pittsburgh-area Remake Learning Days Report, 2016 [.pdf]
- Pittsburgh-area Remake Learning Days Report, 2017 [.pdf]
Sponsors
The sample document in this directory serves as a reference for positioning different levels of involvement in supporting Remake Learning Days for prospective sponsors:
Stakeholders
To prompt thinking about who might form a base of support for Remake Learning Days in a new area or regions, producers can use the stakeholder template to document specific people and organizations to whom they will likely need to involve:
Surveys
Producers need to coordinate surveys as a means of gathering feedback and measuring performance across hundreds and thousand of participants, hosts, and events. How this surveying takes place will be unique to each Remake Learning Days region and area. This directory provides reference samples illustrating the different facets of information collected by Pittsburgh-area Remake Learning Days following past events:
Timelines
Contains a sample timeline that hosts can use to guide and track their preparation activities leading up to their event:
Tracking
Contains a sample tracking spreadsheet that producers can use to track the readiness of prospective and accepted event hosts:
Videos
Remake Learning has produced multiple videos to document and promote Remake Learning Days. This toolkit directory contains a set of these videos, with links to their locations on YouTube as well as standalone files in case it’s useful to have offline versions:
- Remake Learning Days 2016 [YouTube | .mp4]
- Remake Learning Days 2017 [YouTube | .mp4]
- Remake Learning Days [YouTube | .mp4]
- Remake Learning Network [YouTube | .mp4]
- Information for Event Hosts [YouTube | .mp4]
- Daya for Remake Learning Days [YouTube | .mp4]
- Interview with Daya [YouTube | .mp4]
- Jasiri X for Remake Learning Days [YouTube | .mp4]
- Interview with Jasiri X [YouTube | .mp4]