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Home Products Speak Out, Listen Up! Tools for Using Student Perspectives and Local Data for School Improvement
Listening closely to what students say about their school experiences can be beneficial to educators for understanding and addressing school-related topics and problems and rethinking policies and practices. The purpose of this toolkit is to provide educators with a purposeful and systematic way to elicit and listen to student voice to inform school improvement efforts. School improvement is complex work that relies on multiple sources of information to frame challenges and address and monitor change efforts. Student voice brings an additional, important source of information to these efforts.
The toolkit offers three tools.
The toolkit includes detailed information about how the tools work, the questions they address, the number and types of participants needed, the amount of time required, space and materials considerations, and directions for using the tools. It also includes a tool template so schools and districts can create new student voice tools for their particular needs and interests. The following are appended: (1) Student Voice Reflection Worksheet; and (2) Annotated List of Resources.
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Data Analysis, Data Collection, Discussion, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Focus Groups, Interviews, Story Telling, Student Attitudes, Student Empowerment, Student Experience, Student Surveys, Video TechnologyResource Information
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Date: July 2014
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