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Lori-Ann Clementson, Community School Director at FDA III joined forces with Mike Jones, Community School Director and Kristina Wylie-Colmenares, Assistant Principal at the Facing History School to share the intentional steps each school team took during the 2018-19 school year to elevate youth voice in their schools, build students’ sense of belonging, and ultimately decrease chronic absenteeism. FDA III implemented a Passport Challenge—an attendance intervention where students checked in with staff daily to monitor attendance and build relationships. The Challenge was improved throughout the year and resulted in students attending more than in years past. The Facing History School shared social-emotional learning data with staff to elevate the need to focus on student belonging, invited students to share feedback with teachers on a student panel, and created space for teachers to plan improvements based on student feedback. These interventions were shared across the school teams and resulted in both schools implementing a version of the attendance challenge.
Speak Out, Listen Up: Tools for using student perspectives and local data for improvement (Institute of Education Sciences and Regional Education Lab West)
Speak Out, Listen Up: Tools for using student perspectives and local data for improvement (Institute of Education Sciences and Regional Education Lab West)
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The Speak Out, Listen Up! is a toolkit that educators and other adults can use to elicit students’ ideas about school issues, listen to what they have to say, and use their input to help shape change. It includes the following tools:
- Analyzing Surveys with Kids (ASK) involves students in analyzing and interpreting survey results associated with a school-related topic or problem and then in producing suggestions for improvement.
- Inside-Outside Fishbowl organizes a special kind of focus group in which students and educators trade roles as speakers and listeners during a facilitated discussion of a school-related topic or problem and then jointly develop an action plan.
- Students Studying Students’ Stories (S^4) guides a digital storytelling process in which students produce and analyze videotaped interviews of other students about a school-related topic or problem and then host forums with educators to suggest improvements.
Student Voice Continuum (Washoe County School District)
Student Voice Continuum (Washoe County School District)
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This continuum describes levels of student voice:
- Not Student Voice: manipulation, decoration, tokenism
- Being Heard: expression and consultation
- Collaboration with Adults: participation and partnership
- Building Leadership Capacity: activism and leadership
Student Voice Continuum - Washoe County School District.pdfYouth-Adult Partnership Rubric (Michigan State University)
Youth-Adult Partnership Rubric (Michigan State University)
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This rubric presents key indicators and behavioral examples to capture the four critical dimensions of Youth-Adult Partnership. Its purpose is:
- To formalize the concepts of youth-adult partnership in youth settings.
- To be used as a low-stake peer/self-assessment tool for strengthening youth-adult partnership practices.
- To be used as a formative or summative evaluation tool for assessing the structures and processes of youth-adult partnership in youth settings.
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