Student Voice in School Reform

Student Voice in School Reform

Author: Dana L. Mitra

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2014-03-14

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 0791478947

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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.


International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School

International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School

Author: D. Thiessen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-06-03

Total Pages: 910

ISBN-13: 1402033672

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This handbook brings together in a single volume the groundbreaking work of scholars who have conducted studies of student experiences of school in Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, England, Ghana, Ireland, Pakistan, and the United States. Drawing extensively on students’ interpretations of their experiences in school as expressed in their own words, chapter authors offer insight into how students conceptualize and approach school. The book examines how students understand and address the ongoing social opportunities for and challenges in working with other students and teachers, and the multiple ways in which students shape and contribute to school improvement.


Student Voice

Student Voice

Author: Russell J. Quaglia

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2014-08-06

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1483379787

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Meaningful school reform starts with your most powerful partner—your students! When you take time to listen, you’ll find that students’ aspirations can drive your school toward exciting new goals—and when students know they’re being heard, they engage meaningfully in their own academic success. Using examples drawn from student surveys, focus groups, observations, and interviews, this groundbreaking book presents a blueprint for a successful partnership between educators and students. You’ll discover how to: Ask the right questions—and understand how to build from the answers Engage students in decision-making and improvement-related processes Implement the Aspirations Framework to guide students toward their full potential


Engaging with Student Voice in Research, Education and Community

Engaging with Student Voice in Research, Education and Community

Author: Nicole Mockler

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-09

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 3319019856

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This work interrupts the current “consulting students” discourse that positions students as service clients and thus renders more problematic the concept of student voice in ways that it might be sustained as a democratic process. It looks at student voice holistically across realms of classroom practices, higher education, practitioner inquiry and policy formulation. The authors render problematic the “empowerment” rhetoric that is the dominant and insufficient narrative justifying consulting children and young people. They explore the many contradictions and ambiguities associating with recruiting and encouraging them to participate and the varying impacts of different circumstances on the ways in which student voice projects are enacted. They perceive that it is possible for student voice projects to be subverted from both above and below as varying stakeholders with varying purposes struggle to manage and control projects. Importantly, the book reports on research that identifies and highlights conditions for initiating and sustaining student voice and include “beyond school” dimensions that consider young people as “audiences” who can inform community facilities, their development and design as well as undergraduate students in universities. These cases are not reported as celebratory, but rather act as narratives that illuminate the many challenges facing those who chose to work with young people in authentic ways. It both advances methodologies for engaging young people as active agents in the design and interpretation of research that concerns them and offers a critique of those methods that see young people as the objects of research, where the data is mined for purposes that do not recognise that students are the consequential stakeholders with respect to decisions made in their interests.​


Student Voice in School Reform

Student Voice in School Reform

Author: Dana L. Mitra

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781435632073

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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.


The Power of Voice in Schools

The Power of Voice in Schools

Author: Russ Quaglia

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2020-05-26

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1416629378

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For nearly four decades, Russ Quaglia has been laying the groundwork to inform, reform, and transform schools through student voice. That deep commitment is reflected in this inspirational book. Quaglia and his coauthors at the Quaglia Institute for School Voice & Aspirations deftly synthesize the thoughts and feelings of hundreds of thousands of stakeholders and offer a vision for schools where everyone's voice matters. They posit that students, teachers, administrators, and parents must work and learn together in ways that promote deep understanding and creativity. Making this collaborative effort successful, however, requires widespread recognition that all stakeholders have something to teach, and they all have a role to play in moving the entire school forward. We must abandon the "us versus them" fallacy in education; there is only "us." To that end, The Power of Voice in Schools offers a way forward that can be used in any school and * Addresses the importance of everyone's voice in the school community. * Articulates the lessons learned from listening to these voices over the past decade. * Suggests concrete, practical strategies for combined teams of students, teachers, parents, and administrators to make a difference together. This book reflects the dream of a true partnership in listening, learning, and leading together. When the potential of voice is fully realized, schools will look and feel different. Cooperation will replace competition and conflict, collaboration will replace isolation, and confidence will replace insecurity. Most important, the entire school community will work in partnership with one another for the well-being of students and teachers.


Student Voice in American Education Policy

Student Voice in American Education Policy

Author: Jerusha O. Conner

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13:

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The term student voice has entered the everyday lexicon of teachers, administrators, and education policy makers; however, some uncertainty still surrounds the concept. What exactly does it mean when a principal says that he supports student voice, or a superintendent claims that she values student voice? Has student voice simply become a trendy term educators like to bandy about, or does it signify something more substantive that requires ideological commitments as well as concerted actions on the parts of adults? In an effort to ensure that this growing field of practice is supported by a strong research base, this book documents some of the most innovative examples of student voice initiatives currently under way across the country. Our intention is not simply to celebrate student voice, but to analyze the challenges, limitations, and affordances of this strategy in order to inform educational reform practice, policy, research, and theory. This Yearbook marks a contribution to the literature on student voice because it expands the conversation about the purview of student voice from the most intimate inner circle of the classroom and the school to the wider surrounding bands of the district, the state, and the federal educational policy contexts, acknowledging that students are increasingly involved in advocating for legislative priorities and shaping educational policy agendas at all levels of the system. - Introduction.


Curriculum Change within Policy and Practice

Curriculum Change within Policy and Practice

Author: Damian Murchan

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-01-04

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 3030507076

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This book explores how curriculum reform is interconnected with policy, practice and society. Curriculum reform is increasingly associated with efforts to better the lives of citizens and provide a competitive edge to national prosperity. Educational policy and practice have been the subject of unprecedented convergence worldwide in the quest for so-called 21st century skills. This book offers a case study of curriculum reform within the Republic of Ireland, focusing on antecedents, processes and outcomes of government efforts to evoke fundamental curriculum realignment at lower secondary level. Set against a backdrop of fluctuating economic fortunes and concerns about academic standards and educational equity, this volume has wider relevance beyond Ireland for any system undertaking education reform at scale.


Critical Voices in School Reform

Critical Voices in School Reform

Author: Beth Rubin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-12-16

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 113441465X

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This is the first book to look at school reform from the persepectives of those most affected by it - the students.