Kentucky Student Voice Team

  • Organizational Background: The Kentucky Student Voice Team supports students as research, advocacy, and policy partners to improve Kentucky schools. Envisioning a more just and equitable world, in which all school-connected adults are equipped to support students and decisionmakers consult, and co-design, policies and practices with students, KSVT is made up of 100+ self-selected Kentucky students, ages 13-22. Through SCG’s Community-led COVID-19 Recovery Action Accelerator in 2020, KSVT expanded its Coping with COVID student-designed survey from outreach to students to an intergenerational study incorporating the perspectives of caregivers and educators.

  • Project: KSVT devised and facilitated student-led roundtables with students from diverse populations and geographies centered around the culture of assessments from elementary to pre-college years and used this information to create discrete assessment discussion guides for students, parents, and school and teacher leaders. 

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KSVT - Measuring Up! Introductory Video
KSVT - Measuring Up! Introductory Video

Measuring Up is a project created by 10 high school students who are part of the Kentucky Student Voice Team. The project collects stories and insights about measurement, assessment, and accountability in Kentucky.

KSVT - Measuring Up! Discussion Guide for Students
KSVT - Measuring Up! Discussion Guide for Students

For this exercise, students are asked to read the quotes, reflect on their experiences in school, and respond to the discussion prompts.

KSVT - Measuring Up! Discussion Guide for School and Teacher Leaders
KSVT - Measuring Up! Discussion Guide for School and Teacher Leaders

For this exercise, school and teacher leaders are asked read the quotes provided and respond to the discussion prompts as they reflect on their own experiences in school, in student, teacher, or other school leadership capacities.

KSVT - Measuring Up! Discussion Guide for Parents
KSVT - Measuring Up! Discussion Guide for Parents

For this exercise, parents are asked to read the quotes gathered from Kentucky students, and respond to the prompts as they reflect on their experiences in school, both as a former students and as they are involved as parents now.

KSVT - Measuring Up! Frequently Asked Questions
KSVT - Measuring Up! Frequently Asked Questions

Measuring Up! is a project conducted by a collaborative youth-led team with the purpose of uncovering the opinions and feelings that Kentucky students have about their current systems of measurement, assessment, and accountability.