Adam Fletcher In The News

Adam Fletcher is regularly cited as an expert and advocate by the media. Some sources share whole interviews with him, while others cite him. Following is a collection of print citations.

Media Citations

“Tapping The Power Of Youth” by Andrew Malekoff for the Long Island Weekly on September 14, 2019
“Elevating Student Voice in Education” by Meg Benner, Catherine Brown, and Ashley Jeffrey for the Center for American Progress on August 14, 2019
“Philly Appoints 2 Students to Its School Board as Students Nationwide Fight to Be Heard” by Mark Keierleber for the74 September 25, 2018
“Interview with Adam Fletcher” by Kris Welch for KPFA on June 13, 2018
“The Kids Are (And Always Have Been) Alright” by Brooke Gladstone for WNYC’s On The Media on February 23, 2018
“Schools creating new structures to encourage student voice” by Linda Jacobson for EducationDive on November 6, 2017
“Students on school boards bring unique perspective in K-12 direction” by Rafael Guerrero for the Chicago Tribune on August 9, 2017
“Trump’s victory is driving the youth of America to fight back” by Colin Daileda for Mashable on November 29, 2016
“Student reps bring new perspectives to Yakima Valley school boards” by Rafael Guerrero for the Yakima Herald-Republic-May on 27, 2016.
“Adam Fletcher, Founder of The Freechild Project and Child Advocate” by Rebecca Bohman for Luminous Minds on May 8, 2015.
“Teens seek greater influence in education“, by Elinore Ruth Van Donge for CDA News on March 21, 2015.
“Why Do American Students Have So Little Power?” by Amanda Ripley for The Atlantic on March 12, 2015.
“Should Students Sit on School Boards?” by Jacoba Urist for The Atlantic on April 23, 2014.
“A leadership experiment in student voice: A new kind of summer school,” by Robin Kirk for OPC Register. Winter 2014.
“Illuminating the Blind Spots – Climbing from Student Voice to Student Involvement” by Jodene Dunleavy and Max Cooke for Education Canada. 2014.
“Students as partners are…” in Forum News and Notes Information and Ideas from The Forum for Collaborative Leadership & Innovation. April 22, 2014.
“Engagement leads to happiness: So what about the classroom?” by Robert Ryshke for the Center for Teaching Advancing the Teaching Profession. January 20, 2014.
“JCPS teachers embrace tactics to make sure students ‘get it,’ aren’t left behind academically,” by Antoinette Konz for the Louisville Courier-Journal. September 25, 2013.
“Student Voice” By Denise Rose on Foothills School Divison blog. January 2013.
“Adam Fletcher is selected as the Five Year Strategic Plan Consultant” by Let’s Move Cheney. Winter 2012.
“Creating Authentic Jobs For Student Learning Teams” by Susan Lucille Davis for Smart Learning. October 31, 2012.
“Adultism vs Legitimate Adult Stewardship of Youth” by Cooper Zale on Lefty Parent. December 14, 2011.
“Partnering with Students Yields Engaging Rewards,” by Amanda Ryan Fear at Teaching Tolerance. July 5, 2011.
“Youth engagement opportunities abound to teach kids about activism, philanthropy, service” by Lois M. Collins for Deseret News. October 16, 2011.
“Adam Fletcher Promotes Youth Leaders Taking Action” by Clare Hanbury. June 21, 2011.
“Centennial student rallies peers to gain voice on Peoria Unified School District issues,” by Jeffrey Javier on March 4, 2011 for The Arizona Republic.
“Getting Students Involved in Creating a Healthy School Leigh Dalton,” by Ray Churchman, and Adriane Tasco for for ASCD Healthy School Communities in 2011.
“How to Teach Leadership to Students Create a Leadership Development Program” by Monica E. Stevens on Yahoo. February 7, 2011.
“Year in Review” by Helen Beattie for Youth and Adults Transforming Schools Together. Spring 2010.
“Community Youth Development – Sounds good but is it?” by R. Swier for Red Country. November 28, 2010.
“Adam Fletcher” by Al Duncan on Duncan Nuggets blog. January 1, 2010.
“Meeting Adam Fletcher and Seattle Visit” by Jean Berthiaume. October 14, 2009.
“Parties falling short on tapping youths” by K. Mahoney and R. Zahorsky for USA Today. December 28, 2007.
“Getting Youth on Board” by Brian Wheeler for the National School Board Association. April 7, 2006.
“Getting Students Involved in Creating a Healthy School” by L. Dalton, R. Churchman, and A. Tasco for ASCD: Health School Communities Whole Child Initiative. November 10, 2008.
“Hand in hand or toe to toe? Mall-teen dynamic evolves” for St. Louis Post-Dispatch. November 20, 2006.
“Youth community activists size up a toxic threat,” by S. Bohan and M. Manekin for Inside Bay Area. November 16, 2006.
“Everybody Wins!” by G. Greiner for Wondertime Magazine. Spring 2006.
“Seminário internacional debate legalidade e estatuto da juventude” by Projeto Juventude and Instituto Cidadania. November 10, 2005.
“The Teen Ticket: Are Teenagers Old Enough to Vote?” by for Edutopia on July 1, 2004.
“Adam’s actions dispel Generation Xer myth” by Cyndy Lange-Kubick for the Lincoln Journal-Star. April 5, 1998.

Book Citations

Children’s Rights 0-8: Promoting participation in education and care by Mallika Kanyal for Routledge. March 26, 2014.
Bad for You: Exposing the War on Fun! by Scott Cunningham for Macmillan. January 7, 2014.
Youth and Society: The Long and Winding Road, Third Edition by Vappu Tyyskä for the Canadian Scholars’ Press. January 2, 2014.
Organisation und Partizipation: Beiträge der Kommission Organisationspädagogik by Susanne Maria Weber, Michael Göhlich, Andreas Schröer, et al for Springer DE. 2013.
Engaging Pupil Voice to Ensure that Every Child Matters: A Practical Guide by Rita Cheminais for Routledge. January 11, 2013.
I’ve Got Something to Say: How student voices inform our teaching by David Booth for Pembroke Publishers Limited. October 9, 2013.
Young Citizens of the World: Teaching Elementary Social Studies through Civic Engagement, Second Edition by Marilynne Boyle-Baise and Jack Zevin for Routledge. December 4, 2013.
“I think it’s important we get a say”: KidsMatter and student voice by Australia Primary Schools Mental Health Initiative. 2013.
Better Serving Teens through School Library–Public Library Collaborations by Cherie P. Pandora and Stacey Hayman for ABC-CLIO. August 15, 2013.
Essential Skills for Youth Work Practice by Kate Sapin for SAGE. January 15, 2013.
Socially Responsible Literacy: Teaching Adolescents for Purpose and Power by Paula M. Selvester and Deborah G. Summers for Teachers College Press. 2012.
Aim High, Achieve More: How to Transform Urban Schools Through Fearless Leadership by Yvette Jackson and Veronica McDermott for ASCD. 2012.
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Immersive Interfaces: Virtual Worlds, Gaming, and Simulation by Charles Wankel, Patrick Blessinger, Jurate Stanaityte and Neil Washington for Emerald Group Publishing. 2012.
Youth and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook by Glenn H. Utter for ABC-CLIO. September 30, 2011.
Empowerment and Participation in Youth Work by Annette Fitzsimons, Max Hope, Keith Russell, and Charlie Cooper for Learning Matters. September 20, 2011.
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Young People: An Attachment and Trauma-Informed Model for Practice by Patrick Tomlinson, Rudy Gonzalez, and Susan Barton for Jessica Kingsley Publishers. September 15, 2011.
Predictive Evaluation: Ensuring Training Delivers Business and Organizational Results by Donald Kirkpatrick and David Basarab. 2011.
Handbook of Adolescent Literacy Research by Leila Christenbury, Randy Bomer and Peter Smagorinsky for Guilford Press. June 10, 2011.
The Student Voice Handbook: Bridging the Academic/Practitioner Divide by Warren Kidd and Gerry Czerniawski for Emerald Group Publishing. 2011.
The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence by Henry A. Giroux for Grace Pollock Rowman & Littlefield. March 16, 2010.
Young People’s Voices in Physical Education and Youth Sport by Mary O’Sullivan and Ann MacPhail for Routledge. July 12, 2010.
Perspectives on Power: An Inter-Disciplinary Approach by Heather M. Morgan, Jernej Letnar Černič and Lindsay Milligan for Cambridge Scholars. March 1, 2010.
Youth in a Suspect Society by Henry A. Giroux for Palgrave Macmillan. September 15, 2009.
Rethinking Childhood: Attitudes in Contemporary Society by Phil Jones for Bloomsbury Academic. May 7, 2009.
A School District’s Journey to Excellence: Lessons From Business and Education by Bill McNeal and Tom Oxholm for Corwin Press. July 3, 2008.
Communities that Learn, Lead, and Last: Building and Sustaining Educational Expertise by Giselle O. Martin-Kniep for John Wiley & Sons. 2008.
International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School by Dennis Thiessen and Alison Cook-Sather for Springer. June 3, 2007.
Youth-Led Community Organizing: Theory and Action by Melvin Delgado for Oxford University Press. August 15, 2007.
“Student school board reps are being heard” by W. Yost for the Sacramento Bee. January 25, 2007.
Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Era by Henry A. Giroux and Susan Searls Giroux for Macmillan. April 17, 2006.
Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research by Melvin Delgado for SAGE. 2006.
Students Are Stakeholders, Too!: Including Every Voice in Authentic High School Reform by Edie Holcomb for Corwin Press. 2006.
Lift Every Voice: African American Students’ Beliefs of Their School Climate by Constinia Charbonnett for West Virginia University. 2005.
“Youth Development, Participation, and School Reform: Creating Opportunities and Supports for Student Decision-making in a High School” by Matthew Calvert for University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2004.
The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear by Henry A. Giroux for Palgrave Macmillan. April 19, 2003.

Scholarly Citations

“Participatacao signficativa dos estudantes – Uma proposta de formacao baseada na coparticipacao de estudantes e professores no ensino superior” by Leanete Thomas Dotta and Marcia Ristow for Psicologia e Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto – FPCEUP
Essential Voices, Part II: Engaging Students and Parents in the Implementation of a New Teacher Evaluation System. A report issued by Advocates for Children of New York. October 2013.
“Rethinking youth voice and institutional power: Reflections from inside a service learning partnership in a California juvenile hall” by J Tilton for Children and Youth Services Review. 2013.
“Student voice as a contested practice: Power and participation in two student voice projects” by Carol Robinson University and Carol Taylor for Improving Schools. March 2013.
“Listening to Students’ Voices Putting Students at the Heart of Education Reform in the GCC” by Richard Shediac, Dr. Leila Hoteit and Dr. Mounira Jamjoom for Booz & Company. 2013.
“Arab Youth: Civic Engagement & Economic Participation” by UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in the Arab States. 2013.
SpeakOut Alberta Student Engagement Initiative Year in Review 2010-11 by Alberta Education. 2011.
“Leadership and student voice at one high school: An action research study” by T Campbell for Washington State University. 2009.
“Systems, stakeholders, and students: Including students in school reform” by Shelley D. Zion for Improving Schools July 2009.
“A report on the 16th International Democratic Education Conference” by John Loflin for the Black and Latino Policy Institute. August 11-17, 2008.
“Youth engagement, high school reform, and improved learning outcomes: Building systemic approaches for youth engagement” by F Joselowsky for NASSP Bulletin. 2007.
The Learning Compact Redefined: A Call to Action by ASCD. 2007.
“Students matter in school reform: leaving fingerprints and becoming leaders” by Jerusha Osberg, Denise Pope and Mollie Galloway for International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practice. 2006.