{"id":96948,"date":"2025-10-01T16:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=96948"},"modified":"2025-10-01T16:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:49:43","slug":"7-teaching-practices-that-nurture-student-voice-gonzalez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/10\/01\/7-teaching-practices-that-nurture-student-voice-gonzalez\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Teaching Practices that Nurture Student Voice [Gonzalez]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cultofpedagogy.com\/pedagogies-of-voice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>7 Teaching Practices that Nurture Student Voice<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from cultofpedagogy.com by Jennifer Gonzalez<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In our efforts to improve school<\/strong>, especially in the United States, student voice has really gotten lost. We focus on test scores, top-down curriculum, and measures of success that never quite get to the humanity of our students. Not only have these efforts not succeeded in raising test scores (Schwartz, 2025), they haven\u2019t given us much satisfaction in other ways, either: In a recent survey, nearly half of educators reported that student behavior was worse than before the pandemic, and that number had grown since teachers were surveyed just two years earlier (Stephens, 2025).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Although there are most certainly individual schools where great things are happening, too many schools are still missing the mark. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Too many schools keep trying to address these problems without hearing from the very people who are impacted most: the students.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">But there is another way. Four years ago, I started talking a lot about a new book I\u2019d read called\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"Street Data: A Pathway Toward Equitable, Anti-Racist Schools\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cultofpedagogy.com\/street-data\/\">Street Data<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79725 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC-MoreVoiceChoiceControl.jpg\" alt=\"Learners need: More voice. More choice. More control. -- this image was created by Daniel Christian\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC-MoreVoiceChoiceControl.jpg 600w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC-MoreVoiceChoiceControl-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 Teaching Practices that Nurture Student Voice &#8212; from cultofpedagogy.com by Jennifer Gonzalez In our efforts to improve school, especially in the United States, student voice has really gotten lost. We focus on test scores, top-down curriculum, and measures of success that never quite get to the humanity of our students. Not only have these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,347,533,121,419,119,46,74,102,7,838,199,20,66,89,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-education-reform","category-experimentation","category-face-to-face","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-leadership","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-strategy","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96951,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96948\/revisions\/96951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}