Imagine you felt
empowered
to organize and
create change in
your high school.
Creating change is a process. The Youth Voice Toolkit is designed for high school students who believe that the power of change and building out changemaking efforts, can make their high school communities better.
Moving from a current state to a desired state, grounded in an issue of importance to you or your high school community.
Actioning a change process— ”creative” action to solve a social problem.
Every high school is a complex community of students, teachers, administrators, staff, families, and community members. All can be involved in making a high school work better for its students.
What you’ll do:
Learn
Learn about yourself and your high school community. Find others and identify an issue you care about.
- Understand yourself
- Explore people and power
- Build the change team
- Discover the change
- Research the change
- Reflect
Plan
Plan to take the change effort you’ve identified from idea to reality and shape a vision.
- Craft the vision
- Build the plan
- Prepare the plan for reality
- Reflect
Act
Press go on the effort! Take initiative, build skills, and carry out your effort.
- Plan a kickoff
- Tell the story
- Build partnership and support
- Present the case for change
- Reflect
Learn
Learn about yourself and your high school community. Find others and identify an issue you care about.
- Understand yourself
- Explore people and power
- Build the change team
- Discover the change
- Research the change
- Reflect
Plan
Plan to take the change effort you’ve identified from idea to reality and shape a vision.
- Craft the vision
- Build the plan
- Prepare the plan for reality
- Reflect
Act
Press go on the effort! Take initiative, build skills, and carry out your effort.
- Plan a kickoff
- Tell the story
- Build partnership and support
- Present the case for change
- Reflect
How to use the Toolkit
There are three distinct pieces to this Toolkit that all work together: a Companion Guide, this website, and a Case-making Template. Getting started is fast and easy.
Follow the step-by-step guidance on this website and look for this icon throughout for corresponding exercises in the Companion Guide.
Open the Companion Guide now. You’ll use this simultaneously with the website.
When it is time to present your motivating case for change, you can use the Case-making Template to prepare.
Follow the step-by-step guidance on this website and look for this icon throughout for corresponding exercises in the Companion Guide.
Open the Companion Guide now. You’ll use this simultaneously with the website.
When it is time to present your motivating case for change, you can use the Case-making Template to prepare.
Start your journey!
Before you begin, don’t forget to open the
Companion Guide in the section above!
