Picture This!

Find us on YouTube

Want to learn how to leverage your skills at drawing to enhance your message? Picture This! is now on YouTube. This online series was designed with the busy leader and learner in mind. Watch and learn with me as many times as you like!

Find short videos on:

  • The importance of visuals in communication
  • Ways to capitalize on visuals in communication
  • Drawing tools and techniques to develop as a visual communicator
  • Key principles to using visuals to increase audience engagement

Subscribe now and you’ll:

  • Play along with fun drawing exercises and learn simple tricks to making drawing easy.
  • Develop confidence in your own ability to draw and tackle the nemesis of self-talk.
  • Discover how visuals are shaping the worlds of advertising, business, and social media.
  • Unlock the Possibilities at your next meeting or presentation!

Get the courage to pick up your markers and play again! Improve the clarity of your next message through mastering the ART of visual communication.

“Do you teach this?”
is a common question.
Yes, I Do!

 

Watch the Introductory Module Now

Picture This! capitalizes on brain science to answer these questions: What is visual communication? And why do visuals work? You’ll learn and practice drawing: Letters, Shapes, Bullets, Frames and Banners, Concepts and People. In this introduction, you’ll learn to use visuals to gain credibility, focus attention, peak interest and aid in audience retention.

Products

Seen, Heard, and Valued

In this Corwin Publication, Frame the Message Ink illustrations are used to combine the wisdom and practical advice of author Lee Ann Jung to help educators create safe, affirming learning environments that encourage belonging by removing barriers to learning through Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

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Teacher Clarity Playbook

Corwin Literacy and authors Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Olivia Amador and Joseph Assof have found a way to bring deeper clarity around teaching and learning. Frame the Message Ink provided illustrative summaries of each chapter in the book, The Teacher Clarity Playbook, Grades K-12: A Hands-On Guide to Creating Learning Intentions and Success Criteria for Organized, Effective Instruction.

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Success Criteria  Playbook

Excited to release another book in the series by Corwin Literacy and authors Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Kateri Thunder, and John Almaroe.  In The Success Criteria Playbook: A Hands-On Guide to Making Learning Visible and Measurable, Frame the Message Ink provided an illustrated perspective to help educators answer the questions:

  • What does success look like for your students?
  • How will they know if they have learned?

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How Leadership Works: A Playbook for Instructional Leaders

Frame the Message Ink provided chapter illustrations to this new playbook in the Instructional Leaders Series newly released by Corwin and Fisher&Frey. This playbook is intended to sharpen instructional leadership skills and help guide schools toward equity and excellence.

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A Quick Guide to Simultaneous, Hybrid, and Blended Learning

What a year! Covid expanded and blurred the boundaries of teaching and learning. The commitment remained constant, it’s the context that changed. During this challenging time, Frame the Message Ink helped to create a cover for this publication by Fisher & Frey and Corwin Publications in order to fill a huge need for educators and school and district leaders.

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Business Outside

As a business executive, how do you ensure you’re showing up your very best every day? How do you present the real, genuine you at work? And how do you create a culture where your employees can authentically flourish? Being your best means embracing authenticity to feel healthy, grounded, connected—and the path to get there is right outside your front door.

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Color My Credit

Alisa Glutz is a financial advocate and teacher at heart. She also shares a passion for finance and art! Cover art and chapter headings by Frame the Message Ink bring to visual life the topics of credit and debunk the myths of credit scores. Check it out!

Learn more HERE

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Company Culture Boardgame

Frame the Message Ink had the pleasure of working graphically for Stephanie Angelo, SPHR, SCP creator of the board game, Company Culture, a one-of-a-kind board game designed to strengthen organizational culture. If you haven’t had the chance to look past the colorful illustrative box, NOW is the time to dive in and start important conversations in your workplace.

Learn more HERE