Students Are Speaking: Responding to the Evolving Communication Needs of Young People
A 2019 study on workplace readiness, surveying over 3,000 members of Generation Z (those born after 1995), revealed that while students feel confident…
Component: Elevated Student Voice
Students’ ideas, experiences, and identities are centered in decisions that shape what and how they learn.
Webinar: Develop Structures That Elevate Student Voice in Equitable Ways
This hour-long webinar covers the importance of student voice and how to create equitable structures to maximize its use in decision making.
Conduct Empathy Interviews: Elevate Student Voices, So You Can Understand and Support Them
Empathy Interviews provide an opportunity to really understand a student, or group of students, by diving deeper than the surface-level question, "How…
Transform the Student Experience Through Listening: Reflect on How Your Students are Being Heard
This activity is designed to reflect on how you are engaging students to share their experiences, and to garner what they need from school. This is an…
Develop Student Agency: Allow Students to Manage Their Daily Learning
Use design thinking, or a hackathon approach, to give students the opportunity to envision how their daily school experience should change to allow st…
Springfield High School: Using Student Voice to Create Programming that Engages All Students
Due to the leadership team’s hard work, SHS was awarded a five-year grant to start the Afterschool Miller Program to give students a safe place to l…
