Springtide Research Institute was recently featured in an article by the American Enterprise Institute. You can see an excerpt of this article in part below, but we encourage you to visit their site to read the piece in its entirety.

Data from Springtide Research offers a lens through which to reconsider how belonging actually takes root. Surveying nearly 50,000 students in Catholic high schools, Springtide found that a central driver of belonging is not participation or representation, but whether students feel safe enough to talk about what matters to them. Those who report this sense of safety show higher levels of belonging—defined as feeling “noticed, named, and known.”

This finding does not undermine existing inclusion efforts. Rather, it clarifies where those efforts succeed and where they may unintentionally fall short.

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