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Tag: Education Week

Home Posts Tagged "Education Week"

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

August 2, 2019YouthTruthNo 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…

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

June 13, 2019YouthTruthNo 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, 2019YouthTruthNo 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 California Accountability System Signals Progress- YouthTruth’s Sonya Heisters in Education Week

September 28, 2016ytadminEducation Week, On California, Sonya Heisters

It’s good to count parent engagement and school climate, says Sonya Heisters . . .

YouthTruth Executive Director Blogs for Education Week

April 28, 2016ytadminEducation Week, Finding Common Ground, Jen Wilka, Peter deWitt

Jen Wilka, Executive Director of YouthTruth, guest blogged for Education Week’s Finding Common Ground, . . .

Students Report Weak Support Systems for College, Career Preparation

August 6, 2015ytadminCatherine Gewertz, college and career readiness, Education Week

Catherine Gewertz of Education Week . . .

College Bound: Surveys Tap into Student Voices to Improve High Schools

July 27, 2011ytadminCaralee Adams, Education Week, student surveys

Students are the ultimate beneficiaries of education reform, . . .