“It's time to start measuring schools the same way we measure our nations and companies —with quality of life as a metric.”
- Hillary Wen, Hildy Wen
Start a qsli chapter @ your school
Our mission is to establish Quality of Student Life as a nation-wide metric for school success. We believe a standardized measure of student life is overdue in our education system and seek your support in correcting this oversight.
QSLI student activists are leading a global movement to reform education policy and prioritize student wellbeing in the school experience. Implementing this metric will allow us to effectively compare school progress, identify points of improvement, and ultimately build a better education experience for all students.
Your actions make a difference, and pave the way for lasting change. Start a QSLI chapter at your school, or join QSLI as a founding member.
Mission: Generate awareness of and excitement for QSLI on campus
- Build campaigns to promote importance of a standardized measure of student well-being
- Design people-centric campus initiatives: Why does QSLI matter to YOU
- Create and coordinate student teams to spread awareness of QSLI
- Drive social media movements
- Generate marketing material; pitch decks, flyers, graphics, and devise ways to circulate it
Mission: Capture support of school administration and/or local government
- Create petitions, email campaigns, demonstrations, rallies, etc. to gain attention of authority figures
- Identify and communicate with key players within school/local government
- Craft persuasive pitches to convince key players to take an interest in QSLI
- Coordinate the efforts of various key players – connect relevant people to each other, engage student government, devise actionable plans
Mission: Designing and ensuring the smooth operation of campus events
- Work with WTA team to host events on campus designed to raise awareness for and demonstrate the importance of QSLI
- Gain approval from relevant parties (e.g. school administration)
- Partner with student orgs and other third party groups
- Potential to oversee professor panels, documentary viewings, wellness events (arts and crafts, mindfulness, group thinks, etc.), campus stands
- Predict logistical hurdles and devise ways to circumvent them
- We want to hear your ideas – innovate and execute your own events!
Mission: Collect student data via QSLI forms, analyze and present data to inform future action
- Administer QSLI forms to student population
- Collect and organize data from QSLI forms
- Analyze data to identify patterns and consider the implications of those patterns
- Suggest how the trends you observe may inform policies at your school
- Craft presentations to communicate your results in a clear, engaging way
Mission: Discover and promote meaningul stories that illustrate the importance of QSLI
- Research and report case studies of school success in improving quality of student life
- Connect case studies to the importance of QSLI’s purpose
- Talk to students about their experiences in school and discover what they love, lack, and long for
- Survey student interest in a standardized measurement of student life
- Leverage social media and devise engaging ways to share stories, case studies, educational material