Student Voice Archives

< Back to the Blog

Post tagged "Student Voice"

Educators

How to Develop Leadership Skills as a Student (Advice From a College Student)

Are you looking to kickstart your journey to becoming a leader? Here’s a guide for learning more about le...

Educators

Rhode Island Students Share Powerful Learnings on Educational Justice and the Future of Learning

“The best use of my voice right now is here, doing this,” explained Lily of Ponaganset High School at t...

Educators

Watch This Inspiring Student Express Herself Through Spoken Word

Learning how to express yourself through creative endeavors is a life-long process—and a lot of this proc...

Educators

These 5 High School Grads Named Winners of #GraduateTogether Speaker Awards

In May, we worked with high schools across the country to honor the Class of 2020 and #GraduateTogether. Th...

Woman in a street demonstration with a megaphone

How to Develop Leadership Skills as a Student (Advice From a College Student)

Are you looking to kickstart your journey to becoming a leader? Here’s a guide for learning more about le...

Rhode Island Students Share Powerful Learnings on Educational Justice and the Future of Learning

“The best use of my voice right now is here, doing this,” explained Lily of Ponaganset High School at t...

Watch This Inspiring Student Express Herself Through Spoken Word

Learning how to express yourself through creative endeavors is a life-long process—and a lot of this proc...

These 5 High School Grads Named Winners of #GraduateTogether Speaker Awards

In May, we worked with high schools across the country to honor the Class of 2020 and #GraduateTogether. Th...

What Is a Restorative Justice Listening Circle and How to Use It

There’s no doubt that we are living through difficult times. 2020 brought with it a pandemic, human right...

Meet the Student Activists Leading the Country’s Protests for #BlackLivesMatter

As protests and demonstrations fill streets across the country, young people have played a vital role in sh...

Taking Up Space as a Black Woman Is a Revolutionary Act

*In response to the recent protests against police brutality, XQ is putting together content that highlight...

Making Space for Youth Voices and Feelings during Protests against Police Brutality

In response to the recent protests against police brutality, XQ is putting together content that highlights...

Remote Learning Insights: The Role of the Student Is Shifting

In response to school closures across the country, we’re seeing policymakers, educators, and students shi...

Student Shares All: How to Support Students With Disabilities

“OKAY, WHAT’S NEXT?” MY THOUGHTS ON COVID-19 SCHOOL CLOSURES AS A STUDENT WITH A DISABILITYThe decisi...

Life After School Closures: High School Students Speak Out

High school students across the country say they feel scared and anxious as school closures force them to a...

Students Share What It’s Like to Learn in an Innovative High School

XQ schools and partnerships exist in big cities and small towns, in urban areas and rural regions, from coa...

I Can Do That: What Does an Industrial Designer Do?

In a way, you could say industrial designers are responsible for the look and feel of, well, just about eve...

Young Student with a sweatshirt with New Harmony High School in text

How a class of young writers explored climate change through storytelling

Autumn Maison, a ninth-grader at New Harmony High in New Orleans, always liked writing. But nothing prepare...

It’s Been One Year Since I Led a Student Gun Protest. Are Things Better Now?

My name is Kenia Alonzo. I am 19 years old and I am from Albuquerque, N.M. I am a member of Generation Just...

13 teacher tips for building student voice and agency

Elevating student voice means placing young people at the center of their education–involving them in...

From the school board to the governor: Tips on how schools can engage with elected officials

As part of XQ’s ongoing “How-To” series, here are some tips from experts at XQ on how school leaders,...

My Story as a Latinx High School Student

Art by Yancy Villa You should see the surprise on people’s faces when I say that I am white and also Lati...

7 years later, I help others learn to love themselves

At XQ, we value student voice and storytelling. That’s why we create spaces like our blog for young p...

What is Latinx? Tracing Its History and Defining Its Meaning

The term “Latinx” is becoming more and more common. But let’s get started on the right foot, first: I...

How to Help Students Start Their Own Podcasts

Podcasts. They’re kind of everywhere right now. And why not? They’re easily accessible, often entertain...

How to Encourage Students to Vote and Where to Send Them

Young people will play a pivotal role in the upcoming election cycle—by going to rallies, by marching for...

Everyday Hero: What you’re going through now does not define you

In addition to our work to rethink and transform high school in America, we’re committed to sharing the s...

Making an impact: From homeless high school valedictorian to Georgetown University grad

📸 | The Washington Post In addition to our work to rethink and transform high school in America, we’re...

What does mastery really mean?

📸| GettingSmart Issue 21: Greetings, readers, and welcome to the 21st installment of Give Me Five! This ...

The keys to teacher success at innovative schools

It’s all about support, guidance … and student input When I was a student at the Urban Assembly Mak...

Celebrating women’s equality from the computer lab

The first computer programmer might have been a woman, but the field isn’t exactly replete with females t...

Nervous about student loans? You’re not the only one

Student loan debt isn’t just a school problem, it’s a national economic crisis that affects more than 4...

Student loan debt is a national crisis: Is there anything we can do about it?

We asked readers on social media what they wanted to know about college loans, and we were inundated with q...

Everyday Hero: The Purpose of the Paint – Running for Women Without a Voice

📸 | The Seattle Times In addition to our work to rethink and transform high school in America, we’re c...

What do students want? Ask them.

High school students tell us what’s working at their schools and what we can do to better prepare them fo...

Taking it to the streets in Cedar Rapids

Iowa BIG students combine street art with the Berlin Wall project to bring the Cold War to life. A mysterio...

Beyond MLK Day and Black History Month: Making social justice a part of school all year round

Schools with cops but no counselors?

What do high school counselors do? A recent report from the ACLU showed that 17 million students in the U.S...

Do not underestimate an immigrant

Justin is a student at Latitude 37.8 High in Oakland. The school uses the Bay Area as its classroom, encour...

When School Belongs to the Students

When the School Belongs to the Students One of the four operational principles at PSI High is “PSI High b...

Competency, Student Voice, and Old Friends

As a lifelong Tennessean, I always find it a fun activity to see people’s perception of our state capital...

Want to Prepare Students for the Workforce? Let Them Lead.

“You talk differently to students than we do,” a teacher recently told one of my colleagues when she he...

The awesome way one school is helping students broadcast messages to the world.

After the tragedy of Michael Brown, kids everywhere were eager to have their opinions on the subject heard....

7 Quotes From March For Our Lives On The Power of Youth Voice

The power of student voice matters. Our students shared inspiring messages and their words spoke volumes. H...

Reflections from the XQ Class of ‘19

Students speak out! It’s spring, and “Pomp and Circumstance” is in the air. Students across the XQ fa...

What Happens When Students Decide How They Learn?

Students at Tennessee’s Elizabethton High School had goals to redesign their school. So, they entered int...

Why High School?

At XQ, we believe deeply in the power of public education. As the world becomes more uncertain and complex ...

What we learned after Year One as a Super School

The co-founder of New Harmony High reflects on victories, challenges — and a few surprises Congratulation...

How a Bronx alternative school became a ‘place of solace for all’

Even if schools have vastly different models, all educators share the same mission: We want #OurKids and #O...

How mentoring kids changed my life

Summer youth program had powerful lessons for counselors, too. By Nathan Salinas Nathan is a student at Lat...

Hope, empowerment, and saving the planet at New Harmony High

New Orleans might be the party capital of the U.S., but all that fun can leave a serious hangover for the e...

Want to create a more inclusive school? Give students a voice

Maryland high school students find on-campus forums make all the difference. In the months leading up to th...

Real transformation begins on the ground level

As most great stories do, this one begins with a deep hatred for my carpet – well, the school library...

How an “Our Kids, Our Goals” Approach Works to Support Students

A poster hanging in the hallway between the teacher’s lounge and leadership office at Washington Lead...

How Bartleby Changed The Way I See My Own Education

The Bartleby Super School is the Future “What is Bartleby?” Dr. Martinez asked our dinner table...

These girls are using their love of science to bridge international borders.

It’s an unusual commute with border traffic, security checks, and metal detectors all before your fir...

CATEGORIES