Best Practices

Engaging Student Voice Best Practices

• Administrators attend one monthly Student Committee

• Engage in two-way communication regularly with students about what recommendations can be implemented and which cannot and why

• Students present quarterly to entire staff

• Administrators and staff members provided committee minutes and student voice examples

• Invite PBIS Coach/District Support to attend meeting and provide support

• Increasing student voice in local schools and districts

• 5 ways principals can promote student voice and self-advocacy 

• Why is student voice important in education?

• Student-led meetings

• Student podcast

• A case for calling for student voice

• How can students have more say in school decisions?

• What do students have to do with educational leadership?

• Student Voice: a growing movement within education that benefits students and teachers

• Student describe their favorite teachers (Education Week march 2020)

• Conduct student book study.

  • 10 young adult books that tackle racism

  • Responsive Reads

• Youth in front: understanding and supportint student-led activism (3 part training series for adults)

• "Oops/ouch method" for student dialogue

• When we listen to students, we improve our schools

We need to hear from you!!

Using this link please share any great activity, conversation, or practice your Student Discipline Committee has been a part of. Our team would like to share with all schools as we continue to move this work of empowering student voice throughout the district.

Share your best practice here.