DisruptED TV Magazine
The Importance of Student Voice Artifacts
by Rick Jetter, Ph.D.
Student Voice in the Raw
Schools across the nation are finding immense value in accessing and activating student voice for making their schools better than they already are. Rebecca Coda and I have been blessed to have hundreds and hundreds of deep conversations with kids across the nation while putting together our book, Let Them Speak!, published by Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc.. We found that students weren’t very engaged with taking perception surveys that their schools may have already been administering for years because the questions were either too boring or adult created. Students told us stories about how they fill out bubble sheets or Google Survey Forms that they either just respond with the same answer for every question (strongly disagree or strongly agree) just to be done with this menial task or they take the traditional bubble sheets (which are run through a Scantron machine) and make cartoon patterns with the A, B, C, and D multiple choice options that they might fill out in strange shapes and patterns without ever reading one question.
