
I am most excited about the part I played in this book, An Illustrated Guide to the Best Profession in the World! Welcome to Teaching is an essential resource for every teacher, and especially designed for the newest members of our profession. It is part hands-on playbook, part professional research, and ALL highly illustrated. This book just simply makes the complicated task of teaching more engaging and fun!

I am so proud of this collaboration with phenomenal researcher and author John Hattie and other worldwide thought leaders. This book is illustrated from cover to cover! Each spread is designed to take you on a path to truly impactful practice. Stellar teaching all starts with visible learning.

By: Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, James Marshall, Taryl Hansen
Learning inherently involves risk―but not the reckless kind. Every successful student understands that taking academic risks is key to mastering new ideas, asking bold questions, and exploring unfamiliar concepts. Without risk-taking, opportunities for growth, creativity, and achievement shrink. But how can educators inspire students to take these crucial risks when fear of failure often stands in the way?

School leadership requires more than good intentions―it demands consequential actions that produce positive and meaningful outcomes for students, teachers, and the whole school community. This book is a practical, illustrated guide for busy educational leaders that will help you move beyond compliance to meaningful transformation―efficiently and effectively.

By: Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Kierstan Barbee, Sarah Ortega, Taryl Hansen
Empower substitutes to thrive with confidence. This practical guide offers tools, templates, and real examples to ensure engaging, consistent learning for every student—every day.

A topic near and dear to my heart. Belonging has a significant impact on whether or not a student will succeed in school. In this book, I’ve illustrated inspirational and powerful strategies that teachers can apply to help students feel more included in their educational experience.

By: Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Taryl Hansen (Illustrator)
Start with The Illustrated Guide to Teacher Clarity to build your foundation, then move into The Teacher Clarity Playbook to focus on and practice writing learning progressions, learning intentions, and success criteria for your own classroom.

By: Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Taryl Hansen (Illustrator)
Start with The Illustrated Guide to Teacher Clarity to build your foundation, then move into The Teacher Clarity Playbook to focus on and practice writing learning progressions, learning intentions, and success criteria for your own classroom.

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, LLC 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.

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, LLC provided an illustrated perspective to help educators answer the questions:

Frame the Message Ink, LLC 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.

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, LLC 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.

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.

In this Corwin Publication, Frame the Message Ink, LLC 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).

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, LLC bring to visual life the topics of credit and debunk the myths of credit scores. Check it out!

Pulled from the pages of The Illustrated Guide to Visible Learning, this 5-pack of posters is ready to brighten your classroom walls and highlight five important signature practices of Visible Learning: classroom and school climate, teacher clarity, teaching students to drive their learning, practice and overlearning, and feedback.

Why do some instructional strategies work better for certain teachers than others? Given the same materials, time and effort, these teachers seem to possess the secret to success when it comes to high-impact teaching. No secrets here—the key to increasing student learning outcomes is teacher credibility.

In an educational landscape that is experiencing rapid changes and challenges, How Teams Work: A Playbook for Distributing Leadership is a critical companion for those aspiring to craft effective and resilient teams within schools.

Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) have long been celebrated as a powerful tool for driving collaboration and improving student outcomes. But what if there was a way to take your PLC work to the next level? This book prioritizes collective efficacy and actionable strategies by focusing on five essential questions:

A Video-Enhanced Flipbook to Promote Teacher Expertise in Relationship Building, Instruction, Goals, Organization, and Relevance!
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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.