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Category: YT in the News

Home Archive by Category "YT in the News" (Page 3)

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…

Why the 20th Anniversary of Columbine Should Be About Listening to Students

May 6, 2019CstraightNo Commentscolumbine, gun violence, Learning from Student Voice, school safety, Sonya Heisters

By Sonya Heisters, the director of partnerships for YouthTruth It was April 20,1999, and I was a high school junior. Though generally a compliant student, on this day, I convinced a cute boy from drama class to cut school with me. It felt risky and fun. It felt dangerous.  That evening, my 16-year-old definition of…

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…

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…

How Alternative Schools Put Student Voice at the Center

November 7, 2018Jay KustkaNo CommentsMichael Durnil, Rose Tree Media, Sarah Graham, Simon Malls, Simon Youth Foundation, SYF

Read, download, and share the full report here. San Francisco – Research shows that just under 1 in 5 students still will not graduate from public high school. This week, YouthTruth released an up-close look at how Simon Youth Foundation (SYF) builds innovative Simon Youth Academies that help high school students who struggle in traditional classroom settings…

‘Something was Wrong’: New Report Shows Bullying on the Rise the Past Three Years

October 18, 2018Jay KustkaNo Commentsbullying, Learning from Student Voice, Sonya Heisters, The 74 Million

Sonya Heisters, YouthTruth’s director of partnerships and outreach, first observed the rise in bullying in Quincy, Washington. When the team at Quincy Junior High got their student feedback back in the winter of 2018, they saw a surprising increase in the rate of bullying at their school between the 2016-17 and 2017-18 academic years. Heisters…

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