Youth Voice Toolkit
Youth Voice Toolkit to help youth make decisions, reflect on learning, plan for action, and advocate for change in the communities they belong to.
Youth & Family Voice
Youth Truth Student Survey Professional Development
Not for profit organization that uses info from youth surveys to report on power of collaboration, relationships and youth voice. Provides PD to schools and districts to deepen understanding of using student voice and other stakeholder feedback to accelerate change.
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Trauma Experiences of LGBTQ+ Victims: Victimization, Discrimination, and Other Stressful Experiences
A recent study (2021)of victimization and help-seeking among Illinois residents found individuals who identified as LGBTQ+ were more likely to report having been victimized at some point in their lifetime than non-LGBTQ+ individuals. This report includes recommendations for how systems and employers can support LGBTQ+ victims and/or prevent additional trauma are provided and future research directions are discussed.
Tips for Administrators, Teachers, and Families: How to Share Data Effectively
Set of tip sheets helps administrators, teachers, and families determine the best ways to share student data in meaningful ways, on a regular basis, to strengthen family–school partnerships and promote student learning.
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Surveys and Tools for Schools from Panorama Education
Panorama offers various surveys, tools, webinars around MTSS, RTI, PBIS, SEL, and culture and climate. Download surveys from their site to use with families, students and staff.
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Student Well-Being Survey
Measure and Understand Student Well-Being With a Research-Backed Instrument: Sometimes referred to as “youth positive development” or as “indicators of thriving,” student well-being is a predictor of outcomes including educational achievement, mental health, economic prosperity, and relationship success. By asking students to reflect on their well-being through surveys, schools and districts can gather actionable data to better support students socially and emotionally. Measuring well-being can contribute to a “whole child” educational approach, signal to students and their families the importance of mental health, help focus limited counseling resources on at-risk students, and inform a community-wide response to the trauma of student suicide.
Student Voice Panel on Celebrating and Affirming the Racial and Cultural Identities of BIPOC Students Webinar
Hear how district and school leaders work to center student voice in order to uncover and address systemic inequities.
Reclaim Social-Emotional Learning: Centering Organizing Praxis for Holistically Safe Schools Report
In 2020 Communities for Just Schools Fund worked with national network of partners (youth, parent, and teacher-led organizing groups) to press back on harmful narratives about safety — and to instead place conversations about safety into the more holistic, appropriate container of culturally-affirming social-emotional learning (SEL). Through the year-long Community of Practice, they collected survey data from partners about their work related to safety and SEL. The findings from this year-long exploration of culturally-affirming SEL are detailed in this report.
Practical Guide to Advance Community School Strategies for Youth Voice and Leadership
IEL partners with communities, working with local entities to fill service needs and support them in the long-term on their transformational leadership journey. This guide serves to support Community School practitioners to better understand and create opportunities for youth leadership in their schools and communities.
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Participatory Systems Change for Equity: An Inquiry Guide for Child-, Youth-, and Family-Serving Agencies
The purpose of this guide is to help system leaders facilitate participatory systems change for equity. It describes elements of participatory systems change that institutions and organizations can apply depending on local context and locally defined goals. Participatory systems change invites community members2 and system leaders3 to collectively identify, design, decide, implement, and assess priorities, actions, and investments that work toward eliminating systemic oppression and generating system conditions that promote equity, opportunity, and well-being.