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The Resilience Scale: Using Metaphor to Communicate a Developmental Perspective on Resilience

How can we talk about resilience in a way that disrupts people's assumption that it's all about inner strength and just a matter of "bouncing back?"

Conflicting models of mind: Mapping the gaps between expert and public understandings of child mental health

Nat Kendall-Taylor

(2012, March 22). Conflicting models of mind: Mapping the gaps between expert and public understandings of child mental health. Science Communication, 34(1), 695-726.

Talking About Addiction

This strategic guide synthesizes the implications of studies into how people think about addiction.

An Open Letter to the Foundation Community About the Importance of Strategic Communications for the Resolution of Social Problems

This open letter - an outcome from the "Media Matters: The Institute on News and Social Problems" conference held in 1995 - led to the founding of FrameWorks.

Valuing Digital Media and Learning

Digital media can be a tool for the future of learning - but people think about it in ways that look to the past. Values messages can reorient the conversation.

Talking About Skills and Learning

The future will require new skills - which means we new ways of teaching today. But public thinking is, often, stuck in the past. How can we reframe?

The Stories We are Telling: How Digital Media and Learning is Communicated by Education Reformers

The way we talk about digital learning and educational technology matters. This study explores how advocates frame these issues - and the effects of the stories we tell.

Talking About Digital Media and Learning

This toolkit features research findings from several multi-method studies, as well as application guides and resources, to front-line communicators for deploying recommended framing strategies to...

Sample Op-Eds (Digital Media and Learning)

Provide three examples of how to apply the framing strategies on digital media and learning to the format of guest editorials in a newspaper. Mentoring Students to Be Knowledge Producers in...

What’s in the swamp of Digital Media and Learning?

This is a supergraphic representation of the “swamp” of dominant patterns of the public’s thinking about digital media and learning. This visual serves as a reminder of the already existing...

Basic Message Template (Digital Media and Learning)

This template is an outline of a message frame for communicating about digital media and learning as an integral part of education and education reform efforts. The Talking Points, FAQs, and...

You Say…They Think (Digital Media and Learning)

Provides an analysis of a series of frame clashes – you say one thing and the public thinks another – and shows how common communication frames about digital media and learning can get...