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Get inspired by stories of Student-Powered Improvement from across the country. This case study collection includes dozens of powerful examples of educators partnering with students for change. Explore different types of partnerships, educational contexts, and areas of focus.

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Student-powered math classroom

How students co-designed changes in their classroom after taking a survey about classroom learning conditions.
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Partnering with students to co-design a more supportive classroom

How a teacher and students co-designed a more inclusive and connected classroom using the three aspects of the continuous improvement process.
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Student voices inform classroom practices

How student input improved how teachers taught writing.
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Classroom empathy interviews

How empathy interviews led teachers to address classroom engagement by infusing more joy in their classrooms.
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Interviews with graduates

How a teacher changed their approach to teaching seniors mathematics after listening to the stories of students returning from college.
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Let Students Lead Youth Advisory Board

How a student advisory board influenced curriculum and developed student advocates
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Student Fellowship

How a student directed fellowship increased college access for underrepresented students
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Youth Participatory Action Research Committee

Empowered youth use action research to examine trauma-informed practices and safe school environments.
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Classroom Observers

Students provide feedback on student-led assessments.
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Feedback Partners

Students provide feedback on student-led assessments.
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Design Camp

To strengthen post-secondary planning, high school graduates and counselors collaborate at design camp.
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Design Collaborative

Students and teachers developed lessons about racial identity through a collaborative on race and racism.
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Empathy Interviews

School teams conduct monthly empathy interviews with students in order to ground their work in student experiences.
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Feedback Loops

Students and families continuously inform improving Black students’ school experience.
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Teacher Fellows

Teachers use multiple feedback methods to center students’ perspectives and test changes to curriculum.
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Youth Ambassadors

A student group uses continuous improvement to solve complex problems they see in their schools.
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Change Consultants

Students “stress test” educators’ change ideas about college access.
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Student Network

In a regional student network, students used continuous improvement strategies to identify a problem and test change ideas.
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Participatory Budgeting

Budget decisions are made with students and families.
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Student Survey

Student survey data about developmental relationships inform the work of network teams.
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Ambassador Network

A network of student ambassadors works to improve college access.
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Change Agents

Students become partners in re-imagining school culture.
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Student Voice

Student voice has become embedded in a school’s culture.