February Content Ideas

February is the shortest month of the year and for most teachers it feels like the longest month of the school year. Other than President’s day, there seems to be no break in the month. The students have started to get comfortable with the class and their true selves - good or bad - are starting to show. 

While I think each month has a day to celebrate chocolate in some form, I know February has the most. I didn’t put them all in the chart because it seems a little overkill. Here’s the whole list: 

5th - National Chocolate Fondue Day

9th - Chocolate Day

14th - Valentines Day

14th - National Cream Filled Chocolates Day

19th - Chocolate Mint Day

25th - National Chocolate Covered Nut Day

28th - National Chocolate Souffle’ Day

Is it any wonder that February 9th is National Toothache Day? I guess all of the days to celebrate chocolate are offset by National Clam Chowder Day (25th) and National Chili Day (27th). 

Use these ideas to help ease your workload - especially if you pair these with our Black History Month ideas, your content calendar should be full and you get to move from creating ideas to coaching your students.

Date		Topic		Ideas
2/1/2025		National Get Up Day Offers an opportunity to share inspiring stories of perseverance. The day reminds us to pick ourselves up when we've fallen and giving it (whatever it may be) another go!		Man On The Street: Share the greatest inspirational message you have ever received Interview: Talk with an adult (coach, admin, teacher) and discuss what inspires them.
2/2/2025		National Tater Tot Day		This would be something great to put together for your social media channels. Just a quick package to detail the history of the tater tot and create engagement by asking followers to comment where they get the best tots!
2/2/2025		Groundhog Day		This would be best done as a package on your show on Monday the 3rd. Have a student cover the local reaction to groundhog day (play up the excitement for an early spring or dread for a longer winter) , if there is a local version of groundhog day, then have a student cover that and create a package for the show on Monday
2/3/2025		National Carrot Cake Day		Man On The Street: Have students sample carrot cake and get their reaction. Carrot Cake seems to be like Mayonnaise in that it is very polarizing.
2/3/2025		National Golden Retriever Day		Work with a local vet or pet adoption agency to discuss Golden Retreiver or find a student with a Golden Retreiver and do a package about their relationship with the dog.
2/3/2025		Feed The Birds Day		Simple package to discuss Feed The Birds day or work with your Ag department to discuss raising chickens or other birds.
2/3/2025		National Women Physicians Day		Work with a local female physician to do a package about her journey. Work with your health sciences/medical programs to discuss women in medicine. Interview teachers and female students about their roles and goals.
2/4/2025		Thank Your Mailman Day		For several days before the 4th, have students interact with their mail person. Give water, shake hands, etc. Work with the local postmaster to do a package about the local mail delivery process.
2/4/2025		World Cancer Day		Work with a local cancer awareness organization to create a package about a specific cancer and how the community can help. If you have a teacher or student cancer survivor, create a package about their experience.
2/5/2025		World Nutella Day		Man On The Street: A Nutella Taste Test. Put Nutella on random things and have students do a taste test to see if Nutella truly makes everything better.
2/5/2025		World Weatherperson’s Day		Work with a local news station to interview their Weatherperson. Have non-broadcast students and teachers/admin work as guest weather people and try to navigate giving the forecast on a green screen.
2/5/2025		National Chocolate Fondue Day		Do your students know what Fondue is? This may be a great way to work with a culinary department to discuss and sample fondue
2/5/2025		National Signing Day		For many high school athletes, this day is the pinnacle of their career. Coverage should be a package of any signing day events that includes interviews with the athletes to get a look at the recruiting process and why they decided to go where they chose. If you have a local college or university, set up an interview to discuss the recruiting process, what they are looking for and more. Pair this with a high school student or coach’s perspective of the process.
2/6/2025		National Chopsticks Day		Can you use chopsticks? Have random students attempt to pick up things with Chopsticks. This paired with an explainer about how to use chopsticks would be of great value to your community.
2/6/2025		National Frozen Yogurt Day		Frozen Yogurt Taste Test: Find odd flavors of FroYo and have students try to guess what they are.
2/7/2025		National Fettuccine Alfredo Day		Work with your culinary department to create a package about Fettuccine Alfredo or something related to making homemade pasta, etc.
2/7/2025		Give Kids A Smile Day		This is a great day to reach out to your feeder schools and do something fun with those students. Set up an interview booth and ask what makes the kid smile. (Work with a specific class or two and get parent permissions early) This could be cute and funny.
2/7/2025		National Send A Card To A Friend Day		Have students write a card to another student in this school and deliver the note and have the recipient read them on camera.
2/7/2025		National Wear Red Day		National Wear Red Day is an attempt to raise awareness of the dangers and prevention of heart disease. Work with a local medical professional to do an interview about heart disease.
2/8/2025		National Kite Flying Day		Flying a kite isn’t as easy as many think. Have students work to produce a package where they try to fly a kite. The 8th is a saturday so this package could be a wrap-around piece with the students talking about their attempt to fly the kite on Friday and footage of their attempts on Monday’s show.
2/9/2025		Superbowl Sunday		The Super Bowl is an annual event that is known for two things: Food and Commercials. One of my favorite assignments was to have students recreate Superbowl commercials. It’s a relatively simple process because the shots and script are already done. They just have to shoot and edit… these are typically HILARIOUS. The other thing you could do is work with your culinary department to showcase simple Super Bowl party recipes. Or have your students create process videos showing their recipes.
2/9/2025		National Toothache Day		Work with a local dentist to discuss best dental practices… it’s not very sexy but will be something that gets more community members aware of your program. If your school has a dental hygienist program/pathway, it’s a natural fit.
2/10/2025		International Epilepsy Day		A package about epilepsy and it’s treatment would be good here. Student recognition of epilepsy is probably high but actual knowledge isn’t.
2/11/2025		Thomas Edison’s Birthday		An explainer about Edison and his inventions would be a great way to partner with your science department.
2/11/2025		International Women and Girls In Science Day		If you have a strong STEM program at your school, a package about women in STEM will go a long way to build love for your program. It’s a simple task, create a package about women who have made an impact on science and tie it in with female students who do STEM and you have a win.
2/12/2025		Hug Day		Check out the Free Hugs movement and do something along those lines at your school.
2/12/2025		Darwin Day		Who was Charles Darwin? Why was he important?
2/13/2025		Galentines Day		This is a day to celebrate female friendships. Have female students talk about their female friendships? A larger concept could be following a group of female students as they hang out and do “girl” things as a package where they discuss self care, etc.
2/13/2025		World Radio Day		Do a package about a local radio station or personality. Talk about how radio impacted the community throughout history.
2/14/2025		Valentines Day		MAN ON THE STREET: What would be the worst Valentines Day date? MAN ON THE STREET: What is Valentines Day?
2/14/2025		International Book Giving Day		Pair this with Valentine's Day and your school library and/or a local bookstore to have students give each other books for Valentines Day. Work with your local library to share books you will “love.”
2/15/2025		Singles Awareness Day		The alternative to Valentine’s day. It has a good story and could be a great VO explainer.
2/17/2025		President’s Day		Work with your social studies department. Have each teacher tell their favorite president and why.
2/17/2025		Random Acts Of Kindness Day		Find simple things you can do to make someone happy. Little acts like a cup of coffee, a high five, the more simple things the better… these could be used as transitions in your show.
2/18/2025		Flirting Day		MAN ON THE STREET: What’s the best, school appropriate, pick up line?
2/19/2025		International Tug Of War Day		This could go two ways: Simple: Tug of War with a small string and two people face off pulling just using their pinkie. Complex: Group Tug Of War - Teams v. Teams; Subject v Subject (Science v Math) using a real Tug Of War Rope
2/20/2025		World Love Your Pet Day		Work with the local ASPCA chapter or Pet Adoption Agency to discuss adopting pets. Every school has that teacher or student who is obsessed with their pet. Do a package about that relationship. Interview people to try to find the most random pet.
2/21/2025		National Sticky Bun Day		Work with the Culinary department to do a process piece about how to bake sticky buns.
2/22/2025		George Washington’s Birthday		Wooden Teeth? Couldn’t tell a lie. What are the myths about Washington that could be dispelled?
2/22/2025		National Walking The Dog Day		A fun piece would be to mount a GoPro or other camera to a dog and do a POV of that dog playing.
2/22/2025		World Thinking Day		Founded by the Girl Scouts, World Thinking Day is used to discuss things that affect girls and women Work with a local girl scout troup to do a package about their world Thinking Day activities.
2/27/2025		National Chili Day		Do a chili cook off with the faculty or between departments. Have students create hype videos during the week with each competitor talking up their Chili. Cover the cookoff on the 27th and pay off the contest with the winner announcement on the 28th - a Friday! This could be a great way to build both social media presence and show presence in the school.
2/27/2025		National Pokemon Day		Got Pokemon Fact? Can you Catch Em All? Do a man on the street piece where you create fake Pokemon names to be paired with real Pokemon names and ask people if the name is a Pokemon or not. For example, Is “Nagachu” a Pokemon?
2/28/2025		National Pancake Day		Take care of your teachers. Create a pancake bar in the workroom. Have teachers discuss their pancakes and why they added the toppings they did.
2/28/2025		First Day Of Ramadan		What is Ramadan? How is it celebrated? Do a package about Ramadan.
2/28/2025		Rare Disease Day		Work with your local health department to discuss a rare disease that has impacted the area. Work with a teacher or student who has a rare disease and do a package about their disease and their journey.

February has a lot going on. Also keep in mind the administrative and athletic things that will happen in February: 

• Registration for classes

• Tours for incoming students

• Winter athletics playoffs

• Start of spring sports

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Meet the Author, Tom White

Tom White is the Education and House of Worship Specialist at Amitrace. Tom's role is to help educators build better programs through better training, planning, and equipment. Before joining Amitrace, Tom was the Broadcast Engineer at Grady College of Journalism and Communication at the University of Georgia. Prior to that role, Tom taught at Morgan County High School and Rockdale Career Academy where he and his student produced thousands of live streams for sports, news, and community events. Tom’s program at the Rockdale Career Academy received the NFHS Network Program Of The Year in 2016 and his program at Morgan County High School received the New Program of the Year title in 2018. Tom has been a long time contributor to many publications and is the host of Teaching to The Test Pattern Podcast.

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