Our narratives matter. From the way we communicate about learning to the language we use to describe young people, our words tell a story. It’s time our stories reflect the promise of young people—how they learn, what they contribute, and the value of the adults and learning environments that support them.
To that end, America’s Promise has produced two new messaging frameworks to help the youth-supporting field tell those stories. Both the How Learning Happens Messaging Framework and the GradNation Messaging Framework have been collaboratively designed to synthesize existing knowledge, principles, and language in a digestible way to help the field clearly and collectively articulate a more mobilizing narrative about young people and the places and spaces where they learn.
Whether you’re crafting funding proposals, leading media briefings, or engaging in other case-making activities, our hope is that states, districts, schools, community organizations, educators, policymakers, scholars, and other youth-supporting leaders can incorporate this messaging into their work as they see fit.
We envision these tools as living documents, and have published them in a format that can be easily shared and repurposed to accommodate each individual and/or organization’s communication needs. We anticipate sharing additional messaging tools and resources in the future, so stay tuned for more!
Read on for: 1) more information about each messaging framework, 2) social media toolkits that feature the messages and corresponding graphics, and 3) registration links to sign up for messaging workshops.
