School Communities Creating Equitable Conditions Together.
How are students, families, and staff experiencing the necessary conditions to thrive in your school community? What gaps exist and do we notice any trends? How do we act on the data?
What’s missing in schools:
We regularly survey students, families, and staff, but we lack an equity-driven, research-based framework to guide which questions to ask.
We collect survey results but we lack easy and interesting ways to analyze the data.
We want to empower students, families, and staff to act on data insights and collaboratively design new solutions, but we lack programming to do so.
Highlight’s core
program components:
Student and Staff Surveys for Examining Key Conditions of Learning & Engagement
Data Dashboard for Visualizing Conditions Gaps
Workshops with Curriculum and Facilitation Guides
Our signature student survey helps assess differences in how students experience school and whether they feel safe, included, hopeful, and engaged.
Do students feel safe in their school?
Do they feel engaged in classroom activities?
Are students challenged academically?
Do they believe in their ability to overcome challenges?
Stakeholder input for a more equitable school experience.
The Highlight Dashboard allows you to select different demographic filters to see how responses vary by question based on factors such as gender, grade level or age, race/ethnicity, home zip code, and years enrolled.
Custom data,
Custom insights
“We never had access to this kind of data before. We recognized middle school girls were having the worst experience of all subgroups, so we started an after-school girls mentoring program.”
- Katie Kirley, Executive Director,
Steel City Academy
Highlight also includes a design thinking curriculum, and facilitation guides to address data insights. The program empowers students, staff, and families to design creative, innovative, and effective new solutions together to address conditions gaps.
Engaging community in designing new solutions.
“Students’ confidence and self-efficacy starts to build as they hear their voice and see real actions taken based on their recommendations.”
- Dawn McConnell, COO,
John Muir Charter Schools
Highlight also includes a design thinking curriculum, and facilitation guides to address data insights. The program empowers students, staff, and families to design creative, innovative, and effective new solutions together to address conditions gaps.
Engaging community in designing new solutions.
Learn how Highlight can support your school.
Let's Talk.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Every person will need a device to complete the approx. 10-minute survey, which is administered via SurveyMonkey. We’ll create the survey links and help you customize the surveys to your school. You will receive a SurveyMonkey link along with instructions and talking points for administering the survey.
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You will be notified when your survey window has closed, at which point our team will upload a .csv file of your survey results to the Dashboard. When you log into the Dashboard, you’ll find your survey results.
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Yes! We’re happy to administer Highlight at any point in the year, although we typically recommend administering the survey in the fall (September-October) and spring (March-April) of each school year. That approach allows you to create baseline data for analysis, teeing goals for improvement and identifying design interventions in partnership with faculty and students. Administering the survey in the spring allows your team to yield comparison data, revealing whether or not conditions improved, stayed the same, or worsened for specific groups of students.
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Our team will provide as many members of your institution as desired with user accounts. We offer different tiers of accounts: Admin and Basic. Admin Users can upload new surveys for their institution, edit existing surveys and create an unlimited number of Basic User accounts. Basic users can view the surveys for their institution but can’t delete, edit, or add surveys.
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We’ve designed different tiers of support and pricing so that every school can access Highlight, and we’re happy to customize individual support based on a school’s budget and needs. And when you enroll in Highlight you join a movement of K-12 leaders focused on equity and community-centered solutions. We’re always looking for opportunities to connect schools using these tools, so they can work together to plan, share lessons learned, and build community.
