Student Voice Readiness: Building Organizational Mindsets, Skillsets, and Heartsets

• In Event: Understanding and Enacting Equitable Practices: Developing a Shared Understanding of Equity-Centered Work

Abstract

While previous research has explored why student voice efforts thrive or fail, this paper is some of the first research to explore the organizational and cultural conditions of readiness for a student voice project to successfully begin. Using a longitudinal design and mixed methods, it offers support for the value of an overall stance of equity when designing student voice work. Within this context, this paper introduces to the field the readiness conditions that can help student voice activities thrive. Specifically, it identifies the mindsets, skillsets, and heartsets that can strengthen the readiness of schools to engage in this work.

Authors

• Dana L. Mitra, Pennsylvania State University
  Presenting Author

• Jerusha O. Conner, Villanova University
  Presenting Author

• Samantha E. Holquist, Child Trends
  Presenting Author

• Nikki Lee Wright, University of Memphis
  Presenting Author