March Content Ideas

March feels like the longest month on the calendar. The weather is starting to turn warm again, students are getting more anxious about the end of the year, and most systems don’t have a day off in March - 20 straight days of students!! These things can actually work in your favor though - you can now start to send students outside to produce content therefore alleviating that anxiety and getting them out of your face! 

At this point in the year, you should be talking about graduation and how you are going to cover it. Also those other end of year things - senior events, recognitions, signing days, CTSO recognitions and more. 

The month of March has a lot of celebrations: 

• Red Cross Month

• Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month

• National Athletic Training Month

• National Cerebral Palsy Month

• Brain Injury Awareness Month

Some other things you should be thinking about: 

• Prom

• Spring Break

• Graduation

• The end of athletics season. 

Date

	Topic		Ideas
3/1	This is a Saturday so you will need to either do this on Friday or create a batch of content for social media. National Peanut Butter Lovers Day could make for some interesting social media content as should be easy to produce.
		National Pig Day		This is a great way to showcase your FFA or agriculture programs at your school. A lot of schools have FFA programs that have show pigs. There is a lot you can do with that.
		National Peanut Butter Lovers Day		Man On The Street: Crunchy Or Smooth?
		World Music Therapy Day		Focus on your fine arts programs - this would be a great way to do a package about a program or a student that doesn’t normally get recognized.
3/2	Teen Mental Health is a major topic in our schools and your program can really stand out by doing something with a counselor or therapist and post it to social media. Your stakeholders will certainly see it since studies show that social media use spikes on Sunday.
		World Teen Mental Wellness Day		Interview a counselor or therapist on mental wellness strategies that students can follow. Create a video with student’s to give affirmations to others. Creative a video with teachers/admin/local celebrities/etc  giving affirmations to the students
3/3
		National Anthem Day		Work with your history department to do a piece about the history of the national anthem Work with your music/choral department to break down the song elements Man On The Street (probably best done with faculty/staff): Who has performed the best national anthem?
		What if cats and dogs had opposable thumbs day		This would be a great way to integrate your art department into your program. Work a week or so out and ask them to create pieces to demonstrate what a cat or dog would look like or be able to do if they had opposable thumbs.
3/4
		Mardi Gras		What is Mardi Gras? Why is it celebrated?
		National Grammar Day		Work with your Language Arts department and discuss the biggest grammar issues they see in students currently.
3/5
		Ash Wednesday		What is Ash Wednesday? How to people celebrate?
3/6
		National Oreo Cookie Day		An Oreo taste taste in great for this. Oreo has released a variety of flavors recently. Have students do a blind taste test and guess the flavor.
		National Dentist's Day		Work with a local dentist to discuss dental health and/or pathways to becoming a dentist or oral hygienists.
3/7
		National Day Of Unplugging		This could be a longer piece where you do a mini documentary on the day in the life of a student who doesn’t use their phone the entire school day - Interview the student throughout the day to get their feelings, etc.
		National Be Heard Day		This is not what you may think. National Be Heard day is about small business marketing. Work with your school’s marketing/ entrepreneurship / business programs or a local business to discuss small business marketing challenges and obstacles.
		National Cereal Day		Man On The Street: What’s the best cereal? A taste test may also be good here. Blind taste different cereals and ask the students to guess what it is?
3/8
		National Proofreading Day		A great way to partner with your english ‘ language arts programs. Work with those teachers to process how to proofread emails, text messages, and more.
		National Fanny Pack Day		The most awkward fashion accessory deserves it’s own day. This could be a school wide or program wide celebration - have students wear fanny packs instead of backpacks or do different things that showcase different fanny packs. Maybe an 80/90s themed music video would be a great way to give your students an opportunity to create content.
3/9
		Daylights Savings Time Starts		Only two states don’t celebrate Daylight Savings Time - Why? Work with your social studies programs to detail why daylight savings time is a thing. You may also be able to produce something about the potential abolishment of Daylight Savings Time.
		National Get Over It Day		Work with your counseling department to help with teen mental health. The goal of the day is to self-reflect and get rid of what is weighing you down as a person. Your counseling department could help with coping tips, recovery resources, and other things to help students “get over it.” The 9th is a Sunday so make these elements social media products for consumption by the student body at home!
		National Barbie Day		The resurgence of the Barbie brand makes this one easy - unfortunately, this falling on a weekend makes it difficult to do something big but you could do a PINK OUT on social media.
3/10
		National Mario Day		Everyone’s Favorite plumber is celebrated on MAR10! Mario Cart battles, Break out the old NES and have students compete in Super Mario World Contests…. Or have students create a package about the impact of Mario on home video game systems.
		National Pack Your Lunch Day		Do a Pack Your Lunch Day and celebrate diversity in your school by encouraging students to bring their favorite foods for lunch.
		National Hug Your Dog Day		The local animal shelter or charity would love some publicity. Do a package on the shelter/charity and encourage viewers to adopt a pet so they too could hug their dog!
		Harriett Tubman Day		Work with your history teachers to discuss the Underground Railroad and the impact of Harriett Tubman. If you have a local historical society that can help, that may also be a good thing to tie in so you get some community support.
		National Napping Day		National Napping Day is pretty simple… The product should be too. Create a man on the street and ask students/staff their favorite time/place to nap.
3/11
		National Promposal Day		This could be HUGE for your program. Record promposals and sprinkle them into your news cast… If you want viewership, tease this! This could be a HUGE attention getter for your program (Warning: Be VERY selective on the promposals you feature - you don’t want to embarrass someone)
3/12
		National Plant A Flower Day		Work with your ag program or local botany club to showcase this day. Have students/staff plant flowers in a bed at school to honor someone or celebrate an achievement.
3/13
		National K9 Veterans Day		Work with your local law enforcement agency to do a package or feature about a K9 in your community - especially one that has “retired.” You could also celebrate a K9 that may be a part of your system’s school safety protocol.
		National Popcorn Lovers Day		Man On The Street: What is the best flavor of popcorn?
		National Good Samaritan Day		Interview stakeholders to ask what a good samaritan is or how they have been impacted by a good samaritan.
		National Girl Scout Day		Interview a member of a local girl scouts troop to discuss what the Girl Scouts do… and of course cookies. Man on the Street: What is the best flavor of Girl Scout Cookie? Man On The Street: “Is it a Girl Scout Cookie?” Ask the person being interviewed if a random word is a Girl Scout Cookie or not.
3/14
		Pi Day		There are a lot of ways to attack Pi Day…. Pie Taste Tests - The weirder the pie the better Man On The Street: How many digits of PI can you name?
		National Potato Chip Day		Work early and get some wild chip flavors and do a taste test.
3/15
		True Confessions Day		It’s a Saturday. You could do a social media confessions push. Have students confess to things and post to social media. (Obviously you don’t want to have anyone confess to illegal, etc)
		The Ides Of March		This could tie in with True Confessions day… When were you betrayed? Or you could work with your ELA or Latin programs to do packages about Caesar and Roman culture.
3/16
		Start of National Poison Prevention Week		Work with the local poison control center to create social media elements to discuss how to prevent poisoning and what to do if you experience poisoning.
3/17
		Evacuation Day		This day is celebrated in Massachusetts as the day the British evacuated the area. There is certainly a cool tie in with the history department.
		St. Patrick’s Day		GO GREEN! Green graphics, green screen, green green green…. And Corned beef and Cabbage (I imagine most students have never had this)
3/18
		Awkward Moments Day		Man On The Street: What has been your most awkward moment of the year?
		World Social Work Day		Create a package with local social workers and their role in the community.
		World Biodiesel Day		What is biodiesel? Work with your science program to detail what it is, its impact, and possibilities.
3/19
		National Let’s Laugh Day		Break out the dad jokes and puns… layer these throughout your show. Man On The Street: What’s the best dad joke you know?
		International Read To Me Day		Invest in the future. Have your students read to the younger students. Do this a couple of days early and air the piece n Read To Me day.
		Certified Nurses Day		School Nurses get to deal with a ton of stuff - do a feature on them. Also you could work with your healthcare program to discuss what it takes to become a certified nurse.
3/20
		International Day of Happiness		Man On The Street: What is Happiness? What Makes You Happy?
		First Day Of Spring		Pretty simple - do as much as you can outside to celebrate the start of spring.
		French Language Day		Celebrate the French Teacher(s)
		World Oral Health Day		Work with a local dentist to discuss oral health.
3/21
		National French Bread Day		This is the perfect pair with French Language day… Enjoy french cuisine. Taste tests rule this day
		World Poetry Day		Have students create or read their poetry. IF you have advanced editing students, a great way to make this awesome would be to have the author read the poem and have your students create a kinetic typography piece. This will take some planning and time but could be awesome!
		World Down Syndrome Day		Create packages about Down syndrome with your special education department. Create an open and inclusive environment.
		National Common Courtesy Day		Man On The Street: What is courtesy? What is common courtesy?
3/22
		National Goof Off Day		It’s a Saturday so do some social media pieces about your students goofing off… this may be a great way to showcase those blooper reels that students love to make.
3/23
		National Puppy Day		This is yet another way to get your local pet shelter or charity involved with your program.
		World Meteorological Day		Interview a local meteorologist, have them visit your class and talk about their job, have them guest host your weather for the day.
		National Chip and Dip Day		HELLO CHIPS AND DIP! Taste tests abound - different dips, different types of chips…maybe a staff potluck!
		National Tamale Day		Celebrate this Mexican delicacy! Taste tests, work with local hispanic organizations to discuss the history of the tamale… but taste test.
3/24
		National Cheesesteak Day		(March has a lot of food days!) Celebrate Philadelphia! Man On The Street: Where can you get the best cheesesteak?
3/25
		National Physicians Week		Work with local physicians to tell their story about how they became doctors. Create features about those in the process if you a local medical school or access to med school students.
		National Medal Of Honor Day		The local VFW would be able to put you in touch with local veterans who may have a Medal of Honor. Do a feature on those people… Worst case: Do a feature with a VFW representative to detail the Medal of Honor.
		International Waffle Day		Man On The Street: Who serves the best waffle? What is the best topping for a waffle?
3/26
		Purple Day		Purple day is a day to raise awareness of epilepsy. Work with a local neurologist to create a package to inform viewers about epilepsy and dispel myths and rumors.
		National Spinach Day		Popeye’s favorite leafy vegetable! I don’t know what do here but I wanted to reference Popeye! You could work with your school’s agriculture department to discuss the process of growing spinach or with your school nutrition program to discuss the nutritional impacts of spinach.
3/27
		World Theatre Day		It’s time to bring in your drama department - have student actors on your show to promote an upcoming show. Interview the tech team to discuss what happens behind the scenes of a school production. Create commercials for an upcoming performance.
		National Joe Day		Have a cup of Joe! It’s a day to celebrate coffee. Do taste tests. Interview a local roaster. Man on the street: What’s your coffee order?
3/28
		Respect Your Cat Day		Another way to tie in with a local shelter or animal shelter.
3/29
		National Mom And Pop Business Owners Day		Every community has mom and pop shops - this is your chance to celebrate them. A local restaurant, a boutique, an automotive shop. This could be packages about several of these. Every student knows of at least one mom and pop shop - have them work to feature as many as possible in your show and on socials. This is a Saturday so your pieces should air on Friday followed by social pieces throughout the weekend.
3/30
		National I Am In Control Day		A great way to work with your history/social studies department. Discuss the assasination attempt on Ronald Reagan and the resulting impacts. The overall goal is to help people know they are in control of their lives.
3/31
		World Backup Day		Save your data! World back up day is a day to back up the important data in your life. If your school has a computer science program, this would be a great way to highlight them and bring them into the culture of your program.
		National Crayon Day		AHHH The smell of crayons… The foundation of most student’s writing lives is a crayon. It’s ever present… Do a package about the history of the crayon. Showcase how to recycle crayons. Man On The Street: Crayon Or Girl Scout Cookie (give crayon or Girl Scout Cookie names nave have students guess which it is) What’s your favorite flavor crayon?

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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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