YouthTruth Resource Backpack | Plan for Improvement

Choose the school level and theme you want to plan improvements for

Resources are grounded in specific questions and key themes of the YouthTruth Survey to help educators target improvements to a school’s unique findings revealed by YouthTruth reports.

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Elementary

Student Engagement

Academic Challenge

Relationships

Culture

Instructional Methods

Student Engagement

Choose a question and explore activities to boost engagement in younger students

Does your teacher want you to do your best?

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Does your teacher ask you to keep trying when the work gets hard?

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Do you think your teacher wants you to work your hardest?

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Academic Challenge

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Does your homework help you learn?

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Does what you learn in class help you outside of school?

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Does your teacher let you explain your ideas?

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Do you learn interesting things in class?

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Does the work you do in this class make you really think?

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Does your teacher ask you to show your work?

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Relationships

Choose a question and explore activities to improve relationships for younger students

Is your teacher fair to you?

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Does your teacher give you extra help if you need it?

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Does your teacher treat you with respect?

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Do you like the way your teacher treats you when you need help?

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Do you think your teacher cares about you?

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Culture

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Does your class stay busy and not waste time?

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Do students behave well in your class?

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Instructional Methods

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Does your teacher ask you if you understand what you are learning?

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When you make a mistake, does your teacher help you correct it?

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Can you find the things you need in your classroom?

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Does your teacher tell you you can do well if you work hard?

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Secondary

Student Engagement

Academic Challenge

Relationships

Culture

College and Career Readiness

Peer Belonging and Collaboration

Academic Support Services

Student Engagement

Choose a question and explore activities to boost engagement in older students

What I learn in class helps me outside of school.

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My teachers’ expectations make me want to do my best.

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I take pride in my school work.

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I try to do my best in school.

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I enjoy coming to school most of the time.

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Have you ever seriously considered dropping out of high school?

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Academic Challenge

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The work that I do for my classes makes me really think.

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Most of my teachers don’t let people give up when the work gets hard.

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My teachers give me assignments that help me to better understand the subject.

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Most of my teachers want me to explain my answers – why I think what I think.

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In most of my classes, we learn to correct our mistakes.

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Relationships

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How many of your teachers make an effort to understand what your life is like outside of school?

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How many of your teachers connect what you’re learning in class with your life outside of school?

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How many of your teachers believe that you can get a good grade if you try?

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How many of your teachers are not just satisfied if you pass, they care if you’re really learning?

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Culture

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Most students in this school want to do well in class.

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Discipline in this school is fair

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Most students in this school treat adults with respect. / Most adults in this school treat students with respect.

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Adults in my school respect people from different backgrounds. (For example, people of different races, ethnicities, and genders.)

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College and Career Readiness

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My school has helped me figure out which careers match my interests and abilities.

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My school has helped me understand the steps I need to take to have the career that I want.

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Peer Belonging and Collaboration

Choose a question and explore activities to enhance peer belonging and collaboration for older students

Note: YouthTruth’s elementary-level student surveys do not ask questions about peer belonging and collaboration.

I really feel like part of my school’s community.

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Most students at this school are friendly to me.

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I can usually be myself around other students at this school.

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Academic Support Services

Choose a question and explore activities to bolster academic support services for older students

This year, have you participated in an advisory class at your school?

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