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Close the Feedback Loop
Overview
Close the feedback loop by sharing reflections about your school or district’s survey results.
Principal Letter: Creating a Culture of Feedback
Using YouthTruth’s surveys to gather data about your student, family, and staff experiences in school is just the start of creating a culture of feedback. The next important step is to let them know that their feedback is important to you.
Unfortunately, we frequently read in open-ended responses comments from students like, “Nobody is going to read this anyway” and “Nothing changes. We never hear back about our comments.”
Here is a suggestion for closing the feedback loop that you can do soon after receiving your YouthTruth reports. This simple act of reflecting what you heard back to your students, families, and staff makes feedback in your community a two-way conversation and ignites a feedback loop with the power to fuel your improvement processes.
Compose a simple message of “Thank you. I heard you.” This might take the form of a short presentation at assembly, a newsletter, or a written note of appreciation. You might want to focus on just open-ended comments, or you might want to include reflections on your quantitative and qualitative data. Here are some sentence prompts to help you get started.
Sharing Your Reports
Check out this video for easy, step-by-step instructions on sharing your YouthTruth reports!
Shareback Presentation Template
To help you share highlights of your YouthTruth feedback and say thank you to respondents, we created a Powerpoint template that you can use to share back YouthTruth data with your staff, students, and/or community members.
Sharing Your Celebrations on Social Media
Use this Canva template to share what you are learning from survey results on social media.
Feedback Highlights Template
Using this simple template, insert your school logo at the top and fill with your YouthTruth data to share highlights from your survey results as a flyer, poster, email or social media graphic, slide presentation, or activity handout.
Ready-to-Go Posters (English and Spanish)
Use the following posters to showcase how your community puts student voices at the center (and on the walls!). These can be great for classrooms, hallways, or in virtual spaces like on your website or class page.
If you’d like to print any of them on an industrial printer, here are high resolution full bleed versions for download. Or, digital versions are available below.
