Through the process of participatory action research, this work can create a profound shift in schools towards meaningful and sustainable improvement.
Formerly the Center for the Study of Boys' and Girls' Lives (CSBGL), SPARC is a consortium of schools and universities that conduct research, encourage public discussion, and advocate on behalf of students. Work with the Center is explicitly collaborative, engaging students, their parents, teachers and administrators, in partnership with university faculty, in the common pursuit of school improvem
07/02/2021
From research to practice, Charlotte Jacobs is busting myths and inspiring action | Penn GSE Professor? Researcher? Youth advocate? Charlotte E. Jacobs is all of the above, and more. Co-Director of the Independent School Teaching Residency program (ISTR) at Penn GSE, Jacobs brings a balance of research experience and practice to the role, having first taught in an independent school setting...
SPARC Research Director, Charlotte E. Jacobs, Ph.D., co-authored an article about the experiences of Black girls in independent schools. Read the article that was published in Independent School magazine here.
NAIS - Research Insights: Black Girls’ Experiences in Independent Schools At a time when politics and race continue to divide the country, conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion have taken on even greater importance at home and in our schools. Independent schools in particular have been wrestling with how to have such conversations as they relate to the mak...
04/27/2015
Scenes from the 2015 CSBGL Round Table!
04/27/2015
One of the action research teams from Greenwich Academy presenting their project on school conformity at the CSBGL Round Table!
04/27/2015
One of the University School action research teams presenting their project at the CSBGL 2015 Round Table!
04/27/2015
A big THANK YOU to Dr. Howard Stevenson for giving the opening CSBGL Round Table talk focusing on racial stress and racial literacy!
04/27/2015
The Shipley upper school team presents their action research project on academic stress at the annual CSBGL Round Table!
04/27/2015
The Haverford Lower School team presents their action research project on student needs at the annual CSBGL Round Table!
04/18/2015
Great article on all-boys schools & relationships by Upper School Head Matt Green http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7064994
Building Better Men We aren't out to fix boys; we're out to build better men... by creating the conditions whereby their predisposition to be good friends, good partners and spouses, and ultimately good fathers will shine....
03/17/2015
New article from the Economist about the influence of gender stereotypes on gender achievement disparities: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21645734-girls-do-better-boys-school-and-university-both-can-still-improvesometimes?fsrc=email_to_a_friend
Nature plus nurture STENDHAL once wrote that all geniuses who were born women were lost to the public good. At least in the rich world, that wasteful truth has been triumphantly...
03/08/2015
It was great to run into a GDS student at the today!