Meaningful Student Involvement amplifies student voice in ways many people don’t anticipate. There are literally countless issues throughout the education system where engaging students as partners can be crucial for success. By moving through the frameworks for Meaningful Student Involvement, students and adults can work in partnership to address countless issues across the entirety of the education system, ranging from curricular areas to identity, the physical plant to the societal purpose of schooling. (Checkoway & Richards-Schuster, 2006; Rubin & Silva, 2003; Mitra, 2003) Following are some of the issues students are improving in schools through Meaningful Student Involvement.
List of Issues
Here are a list of issues student voice is addressing throughout K-12 schools and across the entire education system.
A-C
- Access to Higher Education
- Achievement Gap
- Adultism
- Afterschool Programs
- Behavior
- Blended Learning
- Brain Research
- Career and Technical Education (CTE)
- Charter Schools
- Citizenship Education
- Class Evaluation
- Class Size and School Size
- Classroom Management
- Commercialization in Schools
- Common Core State Standards
- Community Engagement
- Cultural Competency
- Curriculum
- Curriculum Planning
- Critical Thinking
D-I
- Differentiated Instruction
- Disengagement
- Discipline
- Early Learning
- Education in the Media
- Education Reform
- Educator Hiring
- Emotional Intelligence
- Empowerment
- English Language Learners
- Evaluation Tools
- Examples
- Extracurricular Activities
- Funding Priorities
- Goals of Education and Student Success
- Grant Evaluations
- Informal Learning
- Inquiry Based Learning
L-R
- Literacy
- Mindsets
- Motivation
- Nutrition
- Ownership
- Out of School Time
- Parent and Community Engagement
- Personalized Learning
- Place-Based Learning
- Policy Making
- Political Rallies
- Principal’s Office
- Project-Based Learning
- Research Tools
- Resiliency
- Restorative Justice
- Rural Schools
S
- Safety and Violence
- Scheduling
- School-to-Prison Pipeline
- School-wide Examples
- School Belonging
- School Budgeting
- School Climate
- School Closures
- School Counselors
- School Design
- School Leadership
- School Planning
- School Privatization
- School Protests
- School Reform
- School Research
- School Transformation
- School Year Planning
- Self-Directed Learning
- Service Learning
- Small Schools
- Social and Emotional Intelligence
- Social Justice
- Special Education
- Sports
- Standardized Curriculum and Assessment
- Student Agency
- Student Centered Classrooms
- Student Disengagement
- Student Empowerment
- Student Government
- Student Motivation
- Student Ownership
- Student Participation
- Student Tokenism
- Student Voice and Choice
T-Z
- Teacher Development
- Teacher Quality
- Teacher Training
- Teaching
- Technology in Schools
- Thoughtfulness
- Time in School
- Tokenism
- Transportation
- Truancy
- Voice
- Whole Child
- Whole School Action
- Youth-Led Education Organizing
- Zero Tolerance
Next Steps
While no one issue teaches young people best, this list represents what gets closest to meaningfulness. As long as it is, its not comprehensive, either – there are plenty of other issues. To learn more about what’s next, see the related content below. For information or assistance with Meaningful Student Involvement in your school or organization, contact us.
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