Projects & Research

The Center for the Student of Boys’ and Girls’ Lives was founded by its member schools for the following purposes:

Research and Advocacy: Developing theory about boys’ and girls’ lives
Working closely with university-based researchers, CSBGL schools gather, interpret and disseminate original scholarship on the conditions of boys’ and girls’ lives. Based in the lived experiences of actual girls and boys in its member schools, CSBGL’s collaborative research helps schools to evaluate the impact of their curricula and cultures on their students. The Center aspires to bring awareness of boys’ and girls’ actual experiences and expressed needs more fully into the practice of institutions that profoundly affect their lives.

Best Practices: Answering what works for girls and boys
Drawing on the diversity of its member schools’ histories, forms and cultures, CSBGL helps schools to identify what conditions, practices and programs best serve their students by successfully addressing common concerns identified through its research.

Conversation: Creating communities of inquiry
Sponsoring conversations within and across schools situated in vary different contexts, CSBGL constitutes a forum for experience-sharing, problem-solving and mutual reflection on topics related to the care of male and female students. All research is collaborative and capacity-building: teachers and administrators play an equal role with university scholars in shaping questions and discovering answers related to the well being of students. The Center offers opportunities more broadly, as well, by hosting, presenting and participating in conferences and other round table events.

Expanded Perspectives: Promoting lives of possibility and integrity
Because each of the member schools offers an educational experience that takes into account the whole student-character development as The Center helps schools to develop curricula that reinforce lessons about possibility, democracy, justice and hope.