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District coaches describe Elevate student‑voice program; subcommittee hears privacy, fatigue and implementation questions
Summary
Instructional coaches briefed the Waunakee subcommittee on Elevate, a student‑voice survey and classroom action‑research cycle the district uses to collect anonymized perception data and co‑create improvement plans with students.
Waunakee instructional coaches presented the Elevate student‑voice program and told the curriculum subcommittee how the district has used it in classrooms to gather student perception data and co‑construct improvement plans.
District staff said Elevate is meant to be formative and “non‑evaluative” and described a cycle of surveying students, reviewing de‑identified results, co‑constructing classroom action plans with students, implementing changes and re‑surveying to measure growth. Coaches said the district has run Elevate for several years at different grade levels: the intermediate school (piloted for grades 3–5 this year), the middle school and the high school, where implementation varies because of semester scheduling.
Why it matters: staff described Elevate as a tool to standardize language about classroom learning conditions (for example, “meaningful work” or “feedback for growth”), to surface…
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