Youth Voice:
Honoring and elevating a broad range of student perspectives and experiences through meaningful engagement.
See also: student leadership
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Student Voice Resources from Chicago Chicago Public Schools Department of Student Voice and Engagement shares resources for district schools to elevate student voice, learn from students, and build stronger student-adult partnerships. SOURCE: Chicago Public Schools |
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Giving Students a Voice in their Education (video) This video from Education Week features Washoe County School District's practices to promote student voice and agency in shaping policies and decisions that impact education. Youth voice and leadership is a central part of the social and emotional learning approach in the district. SOURCE: Washoe County School District |
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Chicago Public Schools Student Voice Committees Student Voice Committees (SVCs) are designed to form crucial student-adult partnerships to help address the issues schools and students are facing. Through engaging students in the decision making process, SVCs seek to improve school culture and climate and develop youth leadership skills. SOURCE: Chicago Public Schools |
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Webinar: Looking at the Intersection of Student Agency and School Discipline Practices An in-depth discussion of the connections between student agency and school discipline from the Center for the Collaborative Classroom and Transforming Education. Presenters share ways schools can use student-centered disciplinary practices to cultivate social and emotional skills and empower student voice. SOURCE: Transforming Education |
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Chicago School Climate Standards and Self-Assessment The Chicago Public Schools' School Climate Standards includes 17 key indicators organized into four domains: School-wide Environment and Leadership, Physical and Emotional Safety, Relational Trust, and Teaching and Learning. This document also includes a self-assessment to support school-level continuous improvement and resources to include student voice assessing school climate. SOURCE: Chicago Public Schools |
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| The ten indicators of schoolwide social and emotional learning (SEL) provide districts and schools with evidence of high-quality implementation in the classroom, school, family, and community. | ||
| Learning from data and using this information to improve practice is a central purpose of continuous improvement. Because of this, what your SEL team learns during the STUDY phase informs the SEL continuous improvement process moving forward. View process information here. | ||
| Social and emotional learning (SEL) can be a powerful lever for creating caring, just, inclusive, and healthy communities that support all individuals in reaching their fullest potential. | ||
| The systemic integration of social and emotional learning (SEL) into district priorities ensures that it will become a vital component of what makes the district, schools, and students successful. View process information here. | ||
| Social and emotional learning (SEL) is reinforced and sustained when districts, families, and community partners align and work together. View process information here. | ||