Classroom Visits
Classroom Visits
Learn how to effectively utilize the classroom visit strategy to educate students on civic engagement and register them to vote if eligible.
The classroom visit strategy is best executed by student leaders. Learn more about how to recruit and train student leaders on our Student Leadership Opportunities page!
Use these tools to facilitate voter registration and civic education in the classroom.
Meet students where they are at by brining nonpartisan voter registration and education into the classroom. You can use these resources to equip every student with the information they need to participate in our democracy, and register to vote if eligible.
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Handbook for Coordinating Classroom Presentations
This handbook equips campus staff members with the ability to create and manage a team of students to deliver engaging classroom presentations, and includes a step by step guide as well as sample and template materials for faculty outreach, scheduling presentations, training students, collecting feedback, and more! This handbook is designed alongside the Vote Ready: Mindfully Informed version of the classroom presentation, but can also be applied to any customized presentation that works best for each campus’s unique context.
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Voting as a Student 101 Presentations
This template presentation, designed for either in-person or virtual use, helps you meet students where they are at and address the questions that they are most likely to wonder about participating in our democracy.
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Vote Ready: Mindfully Informed Classroom Presentation
Use this presentation template to adapt your nonpartisan voter registration presentation to include mindfulness and combat student political stress. This can be used with the Voting as a Student 101 presentation, or to adapt your campus initiative’s existing classroom presentation.
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The Civic Engagement Packet
Use the Ask Every Student Civic Engagement Packet to streamline and simplify an inclusive process to register many students to vote, check for errors, and follow up with students as needed. Thanks to the Voto Latino Foundation, there is also a Spanish version of this packet linked in the resource.
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Pledge Cards
Pledge cards are a simple, inclusive, and highly effective way to track voter registrations and engagement, collect contact information for follow-up, and recruit more volunteers for your initiative.
Classroom Visits at Mesa Community College
Learn how Mesa Community College combats political stress and integrates mindfulness and wellness into their nonpartisan voter registration and education presentation.
This resource was created by Alejandra Maya, Civic Engagement Program Coordinator at Mesa Community College as part of the 2025 Ask Every Student Codesigner Cohort.
MCC Votes’ “Vote Ready: Mindfully Informed” Presentation
Mesa Community College developed the Vote Ready: Mindfully Informed Classroom Presentation to integrate civic engagement with student well-being and mindfulness practices. The initiative emerged in response to rising reports of political distress and disengagement among students following recent election cycles. Recognizing that civic participation can feel overwhelming or emotionally draining for some, MCC designed this project to help students connect nonpartisan voter engagement to their own sense of agency, grounding, and community care.
Classroom Visits at Columbia College Chicago
Learn how Columbia College Chicago integrates voter registration into their first-year experience course class, “Big Chicago”.
This resource was created by Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin from Columbia College Chicago as part of the 2022 Ask Every Student Codesigner Cohort.
Columbia Votes “Big Chicago” Classroom Visit Guide
Learn from Columbia College Chicago about how to replicate their process for integrating voter registration into classroom visits that includes:
Identifying your core curriculum class(es)
Reaching out to professors
Coordinating which students will visit each class
Preparing professors for the visit
Visiting the class
Columbia Votes “Why Register to Vote” Presentation
During the Columbia Votes classroom visits, the Voter Registration Geniuses begin by presenting on the importance of registering to vote before guiding students through the voter registration and voting process. Every campus context is unique, but you can check out their presentation for some inspiration on how Columbia Votes motivates students to register to vote in the classroom!