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Guidelines for Submission

Are you a non-profit, community partner, or educational organization or association or government agency and have something that you want to share with students, teachers, or administrators? Read on to see if we can send it through our memo!

Allowable item topics:

• Education-focused event for students, teachers, administrators, schools, districts; if a conference: low cost, scholarships available, or else free to attend;
• Professional learning opportunity for teachers, administrators (advertising for commercial services or products will not be accepted);
• Education-focused contest or competition for students, teachers, administrators, schools, districts;
• Grant or fellowship for districts, schools, teachers, students;
• Scholarship for students;
• Local internship opportunity or credentialing for Rhode Island students.

How to submit

• Deadline is 5:00 p.m. Thursdays for that week's field memo. Late items may be included in the following week's field memo.
• Email fieldmemo@ride.ri.gov with the subject line Field Memo Item Request, and the item as text in the body of the email.
• Items must include the following:
  • Short title
  • 4-5 sentence description that is written in the third person (i.e., no "we" or "us")
  • Key date(s) (e.g., deadlines, event date)
  • Link(s) to additional information (embedded in the description or stand-alone).
    NOTE: Links cannot be "short" (e.g., bit.ly, goo.gl) or "tracking" (e.g., sent through an email distribution service) as our system will mark them as spam and not allow them to be sent.
• Attachments and images are not accepted as either the means of information submission or as part of the item.
• We build the memos fresh each week, so for each instance of inclusion, please email your item to fieldmemo@ride.ri.gov.
  NOTE: As a result of feedback from our readers, we cannot run items indefinitely. Items are limited to sequences of two field memos (weeks) in a row, and then no inclusion the third field memo (week).
• We may lightly edit your item for formatting, length, or layout purposes.

If you have any questions, please email fieldmemo@ride.ri.gov. 

RIDE provides this opportunity as a courtesy, and reserves the right to not include any item submitted if the item does not meet the criteria above or is otherwise not representative of the Department's policies.

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