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Student voice in school reform : building youth-adult partnerships that strengthen schools and empower youth / Dana L. Mitra.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitra, Dana L., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- High school students--United States.
- High school students.
- Student participation in administration--United States.
- Student participation in administration.
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 132 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- New York : State University of New York Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-127) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4356-3207-9
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