
Student Voice in School Reform
Building Youth-Adult Partnerships That Strengthen Schools and Empower Youth
- 142 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Student Voice in School Reform
Building Youth-Adult Partnerships That Strengthen Schools and Empower Youth
About this book
Examines a high school that sought to increase student participation in its reform process.
High schools continue to be places that isolate, alienate, and disengage students. But what would happen if students were viewed as part of the solution in schools rather than part of the problem? This book examines the emergence of "student voice" at one high school in the San Francisco Bay area where educators went straight to the source and asked the students to help.
Struggling, like many high schools, with how to improve student outcomes, educators at Whitman High School decided to invite students to participate in the reform process. Dana L. Mitra describes the evolution of student voice at Whitman, showing that the students enthusiastically created partnerships with teachers and administrators, engaged in meaningful discussion about why so many failed or dropped out, and partnered with teachers and principals to improve learning for themselves and their peers. In documenting the difference that student voice made, this book helps expand ideas of distributed leadership, professional learning communities, and collaboration. The book also contributes much needed research on what student voice initiatives look like in practice and provides powerful evidence of ways in which young people can increase their sense of agency and their sense of belonging in school.
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Table of contents
- STUDENT VOICE IN SCHOOL REFORM
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORY AND OUTCOMES OF STUDENT VOICE INITIATIVES
- 3. LISTENING TO STUDENTS
- 4. DEVELOPING A VOICE
- 5. TAKING ACTION AND LEADING THE WAY
- 6. MAKING A DIFFERENCE AT WHITMAN
- 7. ENHANCING POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES
- 8. STUDENT VOICE AS AN AVENUE FOR CHANGE
- Appendix: METHODOLOGY
- WORKS CITED
- INDEX