Applications
This section provides a variety of framing tools intended to help advocates apply the framing research on early childhood to your daily practice.
- Elements of the Core Story
This tool offers an outline of the “core story to tell,” or the key frame elements for communications that seek to promote early childhood policies.
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
A series of questions that advocates tell us are the most challenging to respond to. Examples of effectively and less- effectively framed responses to each question are included.
- Talking Points
The talking points are intended to be used in preparation for media interviews, editorial board visits, or drafting op-eds as a reminder of the core elements of the child development frame.
- Sample Editorial
This is an example of how to apply the framing strategies on early childhood to the format of a guest editorial.
- Sample Letters to the Editor
Two sample templates for applying the framing strategies to a Letter to the Editor format.
- Early Childhood Framing Case Study Examples 1, 2, 3, 4
Four case studies from early childhood advocates provide examinations of communications materials both before and after implementing framing recommendations.