172. Lily King and Jocelyn Evans Explain the Student Agency Miracle Emerging at Warren Local HS in Southern Ohio

About this episode

Listeners, this episode takes us to Warren Local High School in rural southeastern Ohio, where sophomores Jocelyn Evans and Lily King are helping us explore what can happen when a public school begins listening differently to its students. Warren is a recognizable American public school, grades, schedules, homework, tests, football games and homecoming, but something interesting is happening inside it. Through Students Solving Problems (SSP) and related student agency work, young people are learning to conduct empathy interviews (in partnership with the Human Restoration Projec t and Polaris Education), listen closely to peers and teachers, analyze what they hear, and bring those findings…