Project VOYCE: Menu of Services
Project VOYCE (PV) youth leaders have received rave reviews for their passion and professionalism in the delivery of youth-led trainings and presentations to improve schools. Their work focuses primarily on advocacy for student-centered education systems change. Here are the types of services offered:
Youth-Led Student Voice and Leadership Training Topics
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Building teacher-student relationships within diverse student populations
“The result of this program at our school has been nothing short of phenomenal.” – Cesar Cedillo, Principal of Bruce Randolph School
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Strengthening students’ true “grit” – tenacity and goal-setting
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Shifting the language teachers use to talk about students, from “troubled” or “at-risk” to resilient and capable
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Identifying students’ life experience as an asset, not a deficit
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WOOP—wish, outcome, obstacles, plan
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Leadership and advocacy training with youth
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Giving youth an authentic voice—expression, participation, and action
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Public speaking and facilitation skills
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Project planning skills—working together to create positive change at school
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Developing Youth-Adult Partnerships in Schools
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Leveraging student insights to accelerate teacher effectiveness
“Your group was brilliant! It is truly inspiring to see so many talented young people come together to share their stories and advocate for change!” Liz Dillon, Teach for America
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Utilizing “Fast Frequent Feedback” tools to engage students in collaborative classroom culture
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Fast-frequent feedback practices and tools
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Methods for utilizing student perception data and communicating how data is being used
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Increase teacher effectiveness and improve classroom culture
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Building Your School’s Capacity To Do Youth-led Action Research
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How to gather data adults can’t get– e.g. why students aren’t engaged, barriers to teacher-student relationships, causes of achievement gap, etc.
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Conducting needs assessments and analyzing data to support continual improvement
Public Speaking – Inspiring and Informing Educators and Students
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Inspiring educators with powerful student stories of how teachers transform lives
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How to go from adult-centered “Classroom Management” to student-centered “Student Engagement”
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Reaching the “can but won’t” students and the “can but don’t believe they can” students; engaging the resistant student
