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Tag: Sonya Heisters

Home Posts Tagged "Sonya Heisters"

We Have No Idea What This Year Has Been Like for Our Kids

April 7, 2021Jay Kustkaeducation post, News, Sonya Heisters
By Sonya Heisters Deputy Director, YouthTruth One year ago, my now-kindergartener left his bustling and diverse transitional kindergarten classroom with sensory learning areas designed for academic and social skills development to set up shop in our basement laundry room for “zoom school.” Sitting to his left and right are no longer other curious children, but...

Rethinking What Constitutes Impact

March 30, 2021Jay Kustkacep, Jen Wilka, News, Phil Buchanan, Sonya Heisters
By Phil Buchanan, Sonya Kendall Heisters, and Jen Vorse Wilka Foundations and individual donors need to reconceive impact in a way that puts hearing firsthand the experiences of those they seek to help front and center. If any area illustrates this point, it is education. After all, listening to students should not be a radical...

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…

‘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…

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 . . .

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