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Author: Jay Kustka

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Survey digs into student feelings that affect academic achievement

October 25, 2019Jay KustkaBrian Shumate, Corvallis, Jake Arnold, Medford, Oregon, OSBA, Vincent Adams

By Jake Arnold, communications and news specialist for the Oregon School Board Association. This article originally appeared on Thursday, July 25, 2019, in OSBA’s News Center. The Corvallis School Board’s 2018-23 goals include increasing student voice and supporting student mental health, but those goals can’t be measured by typical data points, such as graduation rates…

How Do You Include Students in School Improvement? Six Tips From YouthTruth

August 2, 2019Jay KustkaNo Commentscommunication, Education Week, edweek, SEL, social-emotional learning, Student Voice, student voice in action guidebook, youthtruth

There’s a lot of talk about integrating student voice into school strategy. Actually doing it is harder. How can we begin to give students a say in how their schools are run? To start, it’s important to find ways to hear from every young person. Not just the loudest students but also those on the…

 ‘60 Percent Think Discipline Isn’t Fair’: New Report Reveals Student, Family, and Staff Experiences with Discipline

June 20, 2019Jay KustkaNo Commentsdiscipline, Learning from Student and Stakeholder Voice School Discipline, Learning from Student Voice, The 74 Million

Jimmy Simpson Jr. is partnerships lead and equity coach for YouthTruth, a national nonprofit that helps schools measure nonacademic indicators related to school climate and academic achievement. Recent federal, state, and local data reveals there’s still a lot of work to do when it comes to ensuring discipline policies and practices are fair and equitable…

School Safety Is a $2.7 Billion Market. How Do Schools Know if They’re Spending Effectively?

June 13, 2019Jay KustkaNo CommentsEducation Week, gun violence, Learning from Student Voice, Parkland, school safety, Stoneman Douglas

When I was a high school junior, a series of anonymous bomb threats were made at my school. I didn’t take them very seriously—usually, they meant a welcome early dismissal. Looking back, I wish my peers and I had been more appreciative. After all, we only saw threats. Since the massacre at Columbine High School…

How’s Discipline at Your School? Don’t Just Look at Referral and Suspension Data, Get Perception Data

April 5, 2019Jay KustkaNo Commentsdiscipline, Education Week, edweek, Learning from Student Voice, school discipline, Sonya Heisters, staff voice, teacher turnover

By Sonya Heisters, the director of partnerships for YouthTruth As a student-teacher, and like most early-career educators, I struggled with classroom management and discipline. The beautifully articulated theories of positive behavior intervention and support that I was learning through my credentialing program seemed at odds with the realities of time and resource constraints in the…

New Report Compares Student, Family, and Staff Experiences with Discipline Finds Student Perception Matters

April 2, 2019Jay KustkaNo Commentsdiscipline, Learning from Student Voice, school discipline

When designed and implemented well, discipline policies and practices can help a school run smoothly, support teachers, and set up equitable conditions of learning. When managed poorly, however, school discipline policies and practices can have serious long and short term effects on students’ lives both inside and outside the classroom, including contributing to the school…

Student-Led Conference in Evergreen School District Engages Student Expert Leaders

February 21, 2019Jay KustkaNo Commentsdartmouth college, Evergreen, Share your passion, Stanford Design School, taliq tillman

On Saturday, March 3rd, students will lead parents, teachers, and administrators through the first ever “Share Your Passion” Student-Led Conference. “Share Your Passion” was inspired by a collaboration between Evergreen School District (EESD) and the Stanford Design School as a way to engage students as leaders and to amplify their voices. To create the agenda,…

Leveraging Student Voice & Engaging Every Learner

January 25, 2019Jay KustkaNo CommentsACSA, Joseph Sampson, Learning from Student Voice, Marci McPhadden, Monterey Peninsula, MPUSD, Oxnard Union, Penelope DeLeon, School LCimate, student voice in action guidebook

We know that a positive school climate (California State Priority 6) is an essential component of a high-performing school. But we need to transform “school climate” from being just another state-mandated performance metric  to becoming a strategic lever for improvement. How do we identify student groups that have less positive experiences in school, whether it’s…

Engaging Diverse Learners through STEM, Blended Learning, and Student Voice

January 25, 2019Jay KustkaNo CommentsClear Creek, Engagement, Karen Permetti, Midlothian, Steven Ebell

We know that engagement is the key to moving the needle on student achievement. But is “engagement” an elusive intangible or an indicator that can be strategically levered for improvement? YouthTruth Partnerships Lead, Jimmy Simpson, Jr., will facilitate a conversation with district leaders from Clear Creek ISD and Midlothian ISD at the Texas Association of…

Put Student Voice into Action with New Guidebook

January 25, 2019Jay KustkaNo CommentsHigh Tech High, Oxnard Union, San Luis Coastal, school climate, student voice in action guidebook, West Contra Costa

Too often in education, important decisions are made without engaging the people most affected: the students. By bringing students into transformation efforts, schools can catalyze improvements and train youth to lead alongside adults in defining and meeting district goals. To kick off the new year, YouthTruth outlined the protocols and strategies we’ve seen work well…

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