Advocacy Action: Community Mural
Out Now
Inspiration for the mural came from a Students Speak project where Out Now students shared their educational experiences and what they need to be successful in school.
It is important for LBGTQ youth’s stories to be shared and help them to be seen and heard. They hope to make a change in what is going on in the public school system.
The mural is a comparision between experiences in school now and what it might look like in the future.
Advocacy Action: Student Survey on the Impacts of Remote Learning
Brockton Kidz Konnect
High school students designed a survey to gather ideas from their classmates about what their teachers and school leaders could do to better support them
Two high school students noticed common struggles amongst their peers during remote learning, and decided to create a student survey to gather ideas from their classmates about what their teachers and school leaders could do to better support them.
Advocacy Action: Students’ Priorities for Recovery and Beyond
Haverhill VIP
Remote learning has been a challenging adjustment for students, parents, educators, and schools since the COVID-19 pandemic started last spring. It has been an unprecedented time for students, who are missing social interactions with their peers and have spent an excessive amount of time in front of screens to learn. Challenges with remote learning have only compounded many pre-existing challenges. Listening to students’ voices is more important now than ever, as decision makers at all levels contemplate plans for the rest of the remote learning period and the transition back to campus.
In this report, Haverhill High School VIP students offer our own insights and experiences concerning the pandemic’s impact on our education. We explain that while the pandemic has caused some unique challenges, it has primarily exacerbated existing issues in our education.
This website is dedicated to the valuable lessons we can learn from students’ own experiences about how to create better schools. Decisions about schooling are often made without listening deeply to students themselves. But students are in the best position to understand what they need in order to do well in school.
A collaboration of the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI), Harvard Law School and Massachusetts Advocates for Children (MAC). LEARN MORE