PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Student voice, meaningful student involvement, student/adult partnerships, student empowerment... students aren't just born knowing how to be engaged constructively in schools, and educators usually don't have time to figure out how to do it alone. That's where we come in.

SoundOut Professional Development

Our training, workshops, and presentations are customized for every school and event. Features include:

We provide training for students and adults, either separately or together. When students and adults are in our workshops together, we actively engage everyone as partners. 

Training Topics 

Students on School Boards Workshop

Photo courtesy of Brian Wheeler for National School Board Association.

Meaningful Student Involvement SoundOut helps participants use a variety of research-based frameworks to create powerful, purposeful approaches to engaging students as partners in school improvement.

Introduction to Student Voice This training develops both students' and educators' understanding of what student voice is and what student voice can do in school.

Student Leadership Training Emphasizing applied leadership throughout schools, we train students and educators to work together to go beyond student leaders planning dances to student leaders solving serious problems in their schools.

Successful Student Involvement in Decision-Making This training highlights the role of student voice in classroom, school-wide, education agency, and school board decision-making. Participants examine their organization's culture and structure, identifying a multitude of ways to successfully involve students.

Student School Board Members Partnering with Youth On Board, SoundOut examines 15 Points to Successfully Involving Youth On Boards with school board members and staff interested in engaging student board members.

Learning about Learning We facilitate workshops on a variety of topics specifically for students to learn about learning, the school system, and education reform:

• Evaluating Your Education

• What is School Reform?

• Building Community in Schools

• Learning through Service to Schools
• Student-led Organizing to Improve Schools

Professional Development Tailored workshops that focus on capturing what educators already know, and refocusing attention on student voice and meaningful student involvement in schools. We work with teachers, school building administrators, school improvement facilitators, para-professionals, AmeriCorps members, and others.

• Students as Partners in School Change
• Engaging Nontraditional Student Leaders
• Changing Classroom Climate
• Learning through Service to Schools

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