Goals and Accomplishments

  • Students engaging in media literacy practices

Goals of Action 4 Media Education

  • Provide leadership and training to foster media literacy education
  • Implement media literacy education based on best practices
  • Partner with other local, state, national and international organizations to promote, foster and advance media literacy educationProvide leadership and training to foster media literacy education
  • Implement media literacy education based on best practices

Since 1991, AME has served as a catalyst for encouraging children and youth as well as those who live and work with them to speak out about the importance of taking a critical look at the media with which they regularly interact, both as consumers and producers. AME members have gained recognition for our many efforts to foster and promote media literacy education as we continue to work toward achieving our goals.

AME projects over the years have included:

  • Training groups of teens to use curriculum materials we’ve developed to present media literacy-based lessons about health issues to their peers.
  • Working with educators to help them create media literacy-based materials for their classrooms and after school settings.
  • Developing and training groups of parents to present media literacy-based health education materials to other parents.
  • Serving as a co-sponsor for media literacy education workshops and conferences
  • Encouraging parents and other professionals to voice their opinions about TV programming for families (our earliest project)
  • Encouraging youth to critically examine media pieces and then express their views via a website designed to reach their peers.
  • Encouraging youth to use video as a medium to express their voices while critically analyzing and evaluating the pieces they create.

Serving as a catalyst for the two media literacy bills that have passed in recent years has been one of AME’s  greatest accomplishments thus far. Encouraging people all across the state, starting with our Washington State legislators to support including media literacy in the curriculum of our public schools has been very exciting! 

For more information about AME, please visit us at:

Action for Media Education (https://action4mediaeducation.org/)

Images of Youth (http://www.imagesofyouthfilmfestival.org)

Nutrition and Media (http://www.nutritionandmedia.org/)

Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Action4MediaEducation/)