Engage student voice through safe sharing spaces, assumption removal, active listening, co-creation, and co-designed action plans¶

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Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The brief lists promising practices for engaging student voice to inform school climate: create safe and supportive spaces for sharing with consent and confidentiality, remove previous assumptions about student experiences, listen with intention using active listening skills, engage and support students as leaders and co-creators, and co-create an action plan with students in which actions are led by students and grounded in youth participatory action research.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Obtain consent for recording, be transparent about use of responses, ensure confidentiality, and provide students tools, information, and skill-building to develop as leaders

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• K-12 students

Target Learning Goals¶

• School climate improvement through student-adult partnership

Related Strategies¶

• Run a strengths-based student focus group using open-ended, neutrally framed questions about learning from home
• Classroom Norms Co Creation
• Co Creating Classroom Norms
• Establish Guidelines for Discussions
• Listen to the Voices of Students
• Listening to the Voices of Students in PBL
• Open Classroom Climate
• Create a Classroom Code of Conduct
• Build a Community on Student Voice

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Mosley, J., & Valdez, A. (2022). Learning from young people about how safe and supportive conditions at home can inform school climate. Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety at WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED621228