Login
Youth Truth Home
Contact Us
Twitter
LinkedIn
YouTube
  • Home
    • Our Impact
    • How We Work
  • Products & Services
    • Student Surveys
    • Family & Staff Surveys
    • Online Reports
    • Professional Development
  • Get Started
    • RSVP for a Webinar
    • Registration
  • Resources
    • Insights From the Student Experience: Emotional & Mental Health
    • Students Weigh In: Learning & Well-Being During COVID-19
    • Learning From Student and Stakeholder Voice
    • Guidebooks & Videos
    • Success Stories
    • Research
  • About
    • Team
    • Careers
    • Advisory Board
    • Funders
    • History
  • News
  • Contact

Tag: Learning from Student Voice

Home Posts Tagged "Learning from Student Voice"

Listening to API & Other Youth to Learn Through a Pandemic

June 16, 2021Jay KustkaAAPI, API, Learning from Student Voice
On Wednesday, June 16, 2021 YouthTruth joined the Grantmakers for Thriving Youth webinar "AAPI Youth on Safety, Belonging, and Thriving" to present new insights into the experiences of Asian Youth from our Students Weigh In  data set. Students Weigh In  is a 3-part report that has shared insights from half a million secondary students in 952...

With Suicide Rates on the Rise, Schools Need Better Data to Keep Students Healthy and Safe

December 2, 2019Jay KustkaCorvallis School District, Emotional and Mental Health, gender identity, Learning from Student Voice, mental health, suicide

Sound emotional and mental health is essential for student achievement, but many students are struggling. Read the full report San Francisco – The number of students struggling with anxiety, suicidal ideation, and mental health issues is on the rise. A report released today by YouthTruth underscores that programs and services, as well as strong relationships…

 ‘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, 2019Jordi HertzNo 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…

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…

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…

‘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…

Learning from Student Voice: School Culture

December 6, 2016ytadminLearning from Student Voice, school culture

Today, YouthTruth launched the fourth report in our Learning from Student Voice series . . .

Posts navigation

1 2 >
YouthTruth Team
  • Samar Allibhoy
  • Juan Cruz
  • Jen de Forest
  • Megan Hallisy
  • Jordi Hertz
  • Symone Marie Holloway
  • Devin Hua
  • Whitney Ivie
  • Doug Keller
  • Elissa Koh
  • Serena Meghani
  • Treva Patton
  • Brian Postow
  • Logan Rowland
  • Valerie Chavez Rule
  • Jimmy Simpson, Jr.
  • Heather Smith
  • Mauricio Teles
  • Jen Vorse Wilka