Middle/High Schools

1. Needs Assessment and Ideation

The Listening Project staff meets with teachers and administrators to determine the goals identified by the school, as well as how the Listening Project can help schools achieve these goals.

3. Implementation and Evaluation

The Listening Project is delivered to students by participating teachers. This implementation is flexible and collaborative, involving a consistent and supportive partnership between teachers and Listening Project staff.

The Listening Project does conduct research activities for two class periods before and after implementation of the project. These activities include online surveys for students and a short interviewing activity. These research activities enable the Listening Project to prove its effectiveness and acquire grant-based funding.

2. Teacher and School Staff Training

All teachers who are participating in delivering the Listening Project must be trained in the method of Transformative Interviewing. The Listening Project offers a 4-hour training workshop to staff at the school. In some schools, only a small group of teachers who have been pre-identified as teachers to deliver the Listening Project attends (for example, if it had been decided that only the 7th grade will receive the Listening Project, only 7th grade teachers will attend). In other schools, the Listening Project trains the entire staff of the school.