Spreading the Word

One of the things that amazes me is the spreading awareness of my work. Despite my lackadaisical efforts at promoting myself, friends from across the U.S. and around the world continuously let me know they saw my writing, they heard my ideas or they ran into someone running a curriculum or program I wrote. At the risk of appearing, here are some of the citations I’ve collected:

• Bryant, J. and Daniels, S. (2007) “Power, Voice, and Empowerment: Classroom Committees in a Middle Level Language Arts Curriculum,” ”Voices from the Middle. 16(1), September.
• Dalton, L., Churchman, R. and Tasco, A. (2008) “Getting Students Involved in Creating a Healthy School,” ASCD: Health School Communities Whole Child Initiative.
• Reed, B. (2008) “Research Brief: Student Engagement Gains Ground“. Northwest Regional Education Laboratory.
• Rudd, T., Colligan, F. and Nalk, R. (2008) Learner voice: A handbook from Futurelab. Futurelab and ESSA.
• Raynolds, N. (2008) “Learning to Change the World” in Le Panoptique. May.
• Delgado, M. and Staples, L. (2008) Youth-Led Community Organizing: Theory and Action. Oxford University Press. p 59, 66, 202.
• (2007) Student voice: A historical perspective and new directions. Paper No. 10. Victoria State Government. Department of Education Office of Learning and Teaching.
• Mahoney, K. And Zahorsky, R. (2007) “Parties falling short on tapping youths,” USA Today. December 28, 2007.
• Manefield, J., Collins, R. and Moore, J. (2007) Student Voice A historical perspective and new directions. (pdf) Victoria State Government Department of Education.
• * “Toward the Pedagogically Engaged School: Listening to Student Voice as a Positive Response to Disengagement and ‘Dropping Out’?” in In D. Thiessen & A. Cook-Sather (Eds.) (2007) International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School. Springer.
• “Stressed-Out Students-SOS: Youth Perspectives on Changing School Climates”, in In D. Thiessen & A. Cook-Sather (Eds.) (2007) International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School. Springer.
• Commission on the Whole Child. (2007) The Learning Compact Redefined: A Call to Action. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
• Joselowsky, F. (2007) “Youth Engagement, High School Reform, and Improved Learning Outcomes: Building Systemic Approaches for Youth Engagement”, ”NASSP Bulletin. 91”(3). pp. 257-276.
• Yost, W. (2007) “Student school board reps are being heard” in Sacramento Bee. January 25, 2007.
• Blanchard, A.P. and Harms, B. (2006) Transforming The High School Experience: The Practitioner’s Guide to Small Learning Communities. Trafford Publishing. p 36.
• Babiak, P. (2006) “Manufactured Cynicism: A Review Interview of Against the New Authoritarianism” in SubTerrain Magazine 5: 44, pp. 43-45.
• (2006) 36th Edition North Carolina Youth Legislative Assembly Final Report. North Carolina State Youth Council and State of North Carolina Youth Advocacy and Involvement Office.
• (2006) School Connectedness and Meaningful Student Participation. US Department of Education.
• Greiner, G. (2006) “Everybody Wins!” ”Wondertime Magazine.” Spring.
• Bohan, S. and Manekin, M. (2006) “Youth community activists size up a toxic threat,”] InsideBayArea.Com. 11/16/2006.
• (2006) “Hand in hand or toe to toe? Mall-teen dynamic evolves,” in St. Louis Post-Dispatch. November 20, 2006.
• Holcomb, E. (2006) Students Are Stakeholders, Too!: Including Every Voice in Authentic High School Reform. Corwin Press. p 34.
• Jenkins, E.W. and Pell, R.G. (2006) “The Relevance of Science Education Project (ROSE) in England: a summary of findings.” Centre for Studies in Science and Mathematics Education, University of Leeds.
• (2005). School Improvement Process Guide. Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.
• Neal, G. (2005) “Student reflections on the effectiveness of ICT as a learning resource,” Paper prepared for presentation at the AARE Annual Conference.
• Wheeler, B. (2005) “Getting youth on board,” National School Board Association.
• Flutter, J. and Rudduck, J. (2005) “Student voice and the architecture of change: Mapping the territory,” Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. p 2.
• Giroux, H. and Searls Giroux, S. (2004) Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Era. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. “
• James, G. (2004) “The Teen Ticket” in Edutopia Magazine. Spring.
• (2004) School Culture: An Introduction. (2004) Gates Foundation Small Schools Project.
• (2004) Abstracts handbook. Education and Social Action Conference. p. 104.

What particularly excites me is that this kind of usage is resultant from 5 years work in which I traveled nationwide and internationally to promote the message of youth voice and meaningful student involvement. The publications that have cited me have included my writing focused on cooperative games and volunteerism, too, which I have really liked writing.

The question for me is how I can assist others in promoting their messages, too. The Freechild Project listserve has been a fair tool for spreading international messages about youth voice; is there another avenue that can be as useful?