Handouts: First Quarter Process Journals

Objective: To create a space that allows participants to feel comfortable sharing their thoughts, beliefs, and experiences

PDF Lesson Plan: Building Trust & Setting Ground Rules

Supplemental PowerPoint: Building Trust & Setting Ground Rules

Objective: To get a sense of what students know about research and to set a basic framework of the YPAR project

PDF Lesson Plan: Introduction to YPAR

Supplemental PowerPoint: Introduction to YPAR ; Phases of the Action Research Process

Objective: To define your community and recognize the communities that you are and are not part of at this time

PDF Lesson Plan: Who is My Community

Supplemental PowerPoint: Who is My Community

Handouts: Community Venn Diagram

Objective: To identify key issues and assets in the community

PDF Lesson Plan: Community Issues and Assets

Supplemental PowerPoint: Identifying Community Issues and Assets

Handouts: YPAR Why Train, How Train

Objective: To understand how research can help you advocate or make a better argument
                   To see how other groups have used research for change

PDF Lesson Plan: Research That Drives Change

Supplemental PowerPoint: Research that Drives Change 

Handouts: Skit Scenarios; Research Video Worksheet

(optional lesson)

Objective: To build understanding of institutional change
                   To brainstorm actions to reflect institutional change

PDF Lesson Plan: Understanding Institutional Change

Supplemental PowerPoint: Understanding Institutional Change

Handouts: Changemaker & Changestopper Skits