Elevator+Pitch

An **elevator speech** is a clear, brief message or “commercial” about something you care about deeply. It communicates clearly what it is, what it is looking for and how it can benefit the person you are speaking to. It's typically about 30 seconds, the time it takes people to ride from the top to the bottom of a building in an elevator. 

**CREATE**: Create a 30 seconds elevator pitch about your learning (and why someone else should care) OR what action you will take based on what you learned today.

 * You may use any of the following prompts to guide your elevator pitch: **
 * What are your key takeaways from what you heard, read or saw?
 * Why is it important?
 * Who and why would someone benefit from this type of learning?
 * How will you take action?
 * How will you transfer what you learned to the learning of your students?
 * Share an AHA moment

**SHARE**:

 * ==Share by pitching your learning takeaways from today ==
 * ==Prepare your pitch to be amplified to be shared globally via Twitter, a blog, Periscope or any other social media platform you wish. ==


 * [|Shark Tank Pitch]- Modeled after the popular TV show, you are competing for a million dollar investment for your project (including a consulting fee for you and your team mates). You are to prepare a pitch to take to the shark tank to get the investments from the sharks.**
 * **Idea**: Will this idea have an impact on student learning?
 * **Implementation**: How possible is this idea given resources and time?
 * **Timeline**: What are the milestones and expected outcomes over what period of time?
 * **Outcome**: What does success look like?
 * **Amplifiable**: How will this impact the rest of the school? How will you help others get on board?

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Take a look at this 6 minute video from Daniel Pink, author of "To Sell is Human". He gives you six new pitching techniques geared towards the 21st century. You can also download his [|6 Pitches Practice Worksheet] to help you create or tweak your pitch. > Appeal to Utility: Relevant to someone's work and Curiosity- peak someone's interest > Even though Twitter allows 140 characters, limit your pitch to 120 characters so that others can pass it on .Remember: The best pitches are short, sweet, and easy to retweet. > media type="youtube" key="XvxtC60V6kc" width="560" height="315" Save
 * 1) **The Question Pitch**Use this if your arguments are strong. If they’re weak, make a statement. Or better yet, find some new arguments.
 * 2) **The Rhyming Pitch**Don’t rack your brain for rhymes. Go online and find a rhyming dictionary. Ex ( http://www.rhymezone.com ).
 * 3) **The E-mail Pitch-**
 * 1) **The Twitter Pitch**
 * 1) **The One-Word Pitch-**Write a fifty - word pitch. Reduce it to twenty - five words.Then to six words. One of those remaining half - dozen is almost certainly your one - word pitch.
 * 2) **The Pixar Pitch**
 * 3) [[image:http://langwitches.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/pixar-pitch.jpg width="451" height="345"]]