Youth Participatory Action Research: Exploring Gender in Schools

The School Participatory Action Research Collaborative ensures that diverse groups of students engage in research that explores gender, relationships, and identity at their respective schools.

Greenwich Academy

How Youth-Led Research Changed A Girls' School

Greenwich, CT
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Our Mission

SPARC is a research consortium among faculty and students at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education and school leaders, faculty and students at a cohort of leading independent schools.

The purpose of the collaboration is to systematically mobilize student insights and voices to improve school culture, policy and practice.

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Member Schools

Belmont Hill School

Belmont, MA
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Collegiate School

New York, NY
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Crescent School

Toronto, ON, Canada
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Greenwich Academy

Greenwich, CT
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Lawrenceville School

Lawrenceville, NJ
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Miss Porter's School

Farmington, CT
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Phillips Exeter Academy

Exeter, NH
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St. Albans School

Mount St. Alban, Washington D.C.
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The Blake School

Minneapolis, MN
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The Shipley School

Bryn Mawr, PA
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Current Projects

Areas of Expertise