Startland Education and Kauffman Foundation introduce 2023 RWL Student Voice group
Startland Education is excited to partner with the Kauffman Foundation for our third-run of the RWL Student Voice Working Group.
Student Voice (SV) is an academic year-long program, grouping students and teachers together, to create solutions informed by real-world learning and human-centered design for their districts–––ultimately, highlighting the importance of student input at the administrative level.
Our 2023 Working Group is composed of 11 schools across 9 different school districts––totaling 50 program participants!
Student representatives from the group pitched the solutions they’ll be working on this Spring at the Manual Career and Technical Center. Check out a few of them below:
Final Projects
Lee’s Summit High School
Teachers: Jenna, Vickie
Students: Hannah, Maieva, Jacob, Mia
Honing in a lack of “belonging,” at their school, these students are looking to improve student-teacher relationships through a long-term approach, and are starting with a unity luncheon.
University Academy
Teachers: Adreani, Ruckman
Students: Me'Lani, Priscilla
Deducing from their empathy work that students are suffering from a toxic environment and, thus, feel afraid to voice their opinions, Me’Lani and Priscilla are creating a Student Advisory Board this Spring so that there’s a formal way for people to express qualms they have.
Raymore-Peculiar High School
Teachers: Renfrow, Russ
Students: Mackenzey, Ellie
Focusing on school infrastructure, these students are working on upgrading seating in the LEAD Center and various other places within their school to increase morale.
Blue Valley Academy
Teachers: Sayers, Brown
Students: Malik, Coriander
After their empathy work indicated that students had a mostly neutral outlook on their school, this team is working on “positive rebranding” for their institution by working with the communications department to create a promotional video.
View the full list of student pitches below:
Finding a problem worth solving.
Watch as some of our SV participants guide you through this step in design thinking.
Thank you to the schools who are participating in 2023’s SV Working Group:
New year, same us.
Read about last year’s Student Voice cohort below.
