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Talking Teachers and Teachers’ Unions

Welcome to Talking About Teachers and Teachers’ Unions – a toolkit compendium of research on how Americans think about the role of teachers and teachers’ unions, and how to increase public...

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You Say, They Think (Teachers’ Unions)

An analysis of a series of frame clashes – you say one thing and the public thinks another – and shows how common communication frames about teachers and teachers’ unions can get “eaten”...

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Basic Message Template (Teachers’ Unions)

This template is an outline of a message frame for communicating about the role of teachers and teachers’ unions as an integral part of meaningful education reform efforts. The Talking Points,...

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Building Support for Teachers’ Unions: The Role of Values Framing

This study uses an experimental survey design with a large, national panel of respondents to identify a value—Pragmatism—that effectively inoculates against negative messages concerning...

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Talking Points (Teachers’ Unions)

Let these serve as reminders of the core frame elements needed to communicate effectively about teachers and teachers’ unions. These can be used in preparation for media interviews, editorial...

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FAQs (Teachers’ Unions)

This resource
 highlights a few common questions about teachers’ unions and education reform, with examples of effective and less-effective responses to each.

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Sample Editorials (Teachers’ Unions)

These sample editorials provides three examples of how to apply the framing strategies on teachers’ unions to the format of guest editorials in a newspaper: Supporting High-Quality Teacher...

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Navigating the Swamp (Teachers’ Unions)

This is a graphic representation of the “swamp” of dominant patterns of the public’s thinking about the role of teachers and teachers’ unions. This visual serves as a reminder of the...

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Caning, Context and Class: Mapping the Gaps Between Expert and Public Understandings of Public Safety

For justice reform efforts to be sustained, we need ways to navigate public perceptions of crime and punishment. This study offers a map of dominant thinking.

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Where’s the Learning?: An Analysis of Media Stories of Digital Media and Learning

This report examines the explicit and implicit messages embedded in the media’s presentation of issues related to digital media and learning in the nation’s newspapers, radio and TV news...

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Painted in a Corner: How the Media Frames Teachers’ Unions and Education Reform

This report examines the media presentation of teachers’ unions and education reform by identifying and documenting the way existing frames about teachers’ unions are embedded and presented to...

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Elements of the Core Story (Early Childhood Development)

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.