Kasserian Ingera! (Are the Children Well)
Schools
Create a school environment where students are motivated to thrive and succeed.
We cannot move forward without a plan for reforming our schools. Our schools have done a poor job of educating black children and children of color. We have to be part of movement that creates a school environment where all students are motivated to thrive and succeed.
Our school plays a critical role in building not only students’ academic skills, but also the social and emotional skills that are essential for lifelong success. Developmental relationships between students and teachers help increase student motivation even in the most challenged and unmotivated students. It helps them believe in themselves and work towards achieving their potential.
Student Motivation and Achievement
Available Studies and Research-Based Publications
More students than ever before are being asked and are choosing to engage in challenging academic work. Search Institute research and practice partnerships have examined multiple individual and school factors that contribute to—or undermine—student motivation, which is a cornerstone of student achievement.
Current projects on teacher-student relationships and motivation as well as Search Institute’s longstanding research on Developmental Assets aim to increase understanding of how schools and others can best prepare students to be active, engaged, and contributing members of their communities and society.
Search Institute offers a range of research, tools, and resources to create school and classroom environments where all of our students can succeed.
Read about how a Minnesota school applied Search Institute research to increase student motivation in the classroom.
Learn More About our REACH Program for Schools
Search Institute offers a range of research, tools, and resources to create school and classroom environments where all of your students can succeed.
Read about how a Minnesota school applied Search Institute research to increase student motivation in the classroom.
Learn More About our REACH Program for Schools
Professional Development for Schools
Strengthening Student Motivation Workshop
This two-day workshop for school staff on building student motivation based on the REACH framework (Relationships, Effort, Aspirations, Cognition, Heart).
REACH On-Site Professional Development
Search Institute offers component-based two to three hour workshops at your school site. These modules can be combined for a custom personal development session that fits the needs of your program.
Surveys for Schools
Youth self-report surveys give you the tools to build a stronger school and measure the important social and emotional development of your students.
REACH Survey
Captures youth voice of middle and high school students on relationships with teachers and their personal levels of student motivation.
Developmental Assets Survey
Developmental Assets are the Captures youth voice of 4th – 12th graders on their strengths and the supports in their life.
Attitudes and Behaviors Survey
The Attitudes and Behaviors (A&B) Survey gives a snapshot of the current experiences and perspectives of your adolescent youth in your school. It emphasizes the strengths and supports they currently have and need, and how those positive indicators protect against youth risk behavior.
Survey Consulting
- Data Consultation
- Remote phone or video conference exploration and examination of survey results with a Search staff member.
- Implementation Support
- Onsite and/or remote support