How Learning Happens: FACT Suite

Asset type: Analytical, evidence-based suite; supports credibility of social, emotional, and academic development efforts and change management efforts

Purpose: This suite of social media-ready images with text can be used in any sequence and on any schedule to promote your organization’s efforts to integrate social, emotional, and academic development in school and out-of-school learning environments. These images feature succinct quotes or summary statements produced by meticulously mining the leading scholarship and research on the science of learning, human development, school climate and culture, teacher development, and evidence-based social and emotional learning programming and implementation. These statements are not opinions or sales language, but facts, based on rigorous and robust science.

Note: InDesign files are available for you to brand as your own, or to swap out customized images of specific schools, programs and young people, with the same text.

Ideas for use:

To embed in presentations or print as a separate handout for family-oriented events and professional development meetings
In e-newsletters
As part of fundraising proposals and campaigns
As part of a ritual in an introduction to learning
At faculty/staff meetings, have a conversation around one of the facts per meeting
As posters around out-of-school and school spaces, where educators, families and students will see them
Distribute in connection to the release of reports
Share on Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter together or as a series over time

Suggested text for sharing on social media:

Learning happens in a supportive environment. It’s not an opinion. It’s #HowLearningHappens
When students feel connected to others, the learning networks in their brains become stronger. It’s not an opinion. It’s #HowLearningHappens
When students feel like their culture and identity are respected, they’re more likely to succeed. It’s not an opinion. It’s #HowLearningHappens
When students feel like they belong, they’re more likely to take positive risks that help them grow. It’s not an opinion. It’s #HowLearningHappens
Finally. The FACTS about #HowLearningHappens
Now science confirms what you’ve always known. Here are the facts about #HowLearningHappens