A newly updated and released website, The Future Ready Project, provides college and career readiness advocates with the information, strategies, messages and tools they need to effectively make the case for the college- and career- ready agenda in their states and communities. With customizable resources and fact sheets, stakeholders may take the materials available on the site and tailor them to best fit their constituent audiences.
Looking for data and talking points to support your advocacy? Check out Make the Case: Facts & Research, which has key fact sheets on major college- and career-ready policies and reforms, relevant research to inform your case-making, public opinion data organized by audience, great sources of local and state data and pages designed to help you jump right in and tackle common communications challenges.
Putting together a communications strategy or plan and need some help? Plan Your Strategy: Tools & Messages offers tools for planning a communications strategy including a modifiable plan template, messaging tools for communicating about college and career readiness, resources targeted at engaging business leaders, videos of current students and recent graduates talking about college and career readiness, flexible fact sheets designed to help you bust common myths about the college- and career-ready agenda and communications tools from other national and state organizations.
Want to see what materials are already out there? Find Relevant Resources is a brand new searchable database of advocacy and communications resources, tools, campaigns and materials, developed by national organizations and state and local organizations. With a growing collection of over 150 resources currently available for parents, educators, businesses and a variety of other audiences, this database has appropriate materials for any and all college- and career-ready case-making.
For more information, please visit: http://www.futurereadyproject.org/
