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Close the Feedback Loop

Overview

Close the feedback loop by sharing reflections about your school or district’s survey results.

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.


Check out this video for easy, step-by-step instructions on sharing your YouthTruth reports!


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.


Use this Canva template to share what you are learning from survey results on social media.


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.


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, just drop us a line and we’ll be happy to share a full bleed PDF.

Poster saying "nothing about us, without us"
Poster saying, "what does student voice look like?"
Poster saying "you can't help the kids if you don't know what the kids want"
Poster saying "This school cares about Youth Voice"
Poster saying "Honestly ask us what change would be better"
Poster saying "We're proud to be a Youthtruth school"
Poster saying "Student voice matters here"
Poster saying "Listening to students matters here"
Poster saying "you can't help the kids if you don't know what the kids want"
Poster saying "This school cares about student voice"
Poster saying "Tell us what you think! Your voice matters"
Poster saying "you can't help the kids if you don't know what the kids want"
Poster featuring a quote from a student saying "honestly ask us what change would be better" with us in italics
Poster with student smiling that reads "We listen to the voices of those we seek to serve:
Poster featuring a quote from a student saying "honestly ask us what change would be better" with us in italics
Poster saying "Student voice matters here"
Poster featuring a quote from a student that reads, "I sincerely hope you understand what I'm saying and where I'm coming from. Do something. Make changes. Do better."
Poster saying "We're proud to be a YouthTruth school"
Poster saying "The work I do for my classes really makes me think"