Youth-Led Community-Based Research Resources

Curriculum Framework

A flexible curriculum framework that guides young people through listening, investigating, designing, acting, and learning with their community. It provides a nine-module journey from community curiosity to evidence-informed action.

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Assessment Toolkit

A complete assessment companion featuring 18 reproducible tools and six adaptable rubrics for gathering evidence, providing feedback, holding learning conferences, building portfolios, and assessing authentic project learning.

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Community Partner Guide

A practical guide for community partners who are listening, mentoring, advising, and working alongside young people. It offers guidance for contributing knowledge, connections, questions, and support while protecting youth leadership.

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Mini-Lesson & Provocation Decks

A collection of 45 just-in-time teaching cards, including 18 mini-lessons and 27 provocations. The cards help educators introduce important concepts, spark discussion, and support inquiry, action, evidence, and reflection.

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Project Toolkit

A collection of 36 adaptable canvases, organizers, protocols, logs, and reporting structures that support the complete youth-led research process, from mapping and listening to acting, evaluating, and sharing.

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Project Toolkit: Grades 5–9

A student-friendly edition of the Project Toolkit featuring 36 pages for asking questions, planning, listening, interpreting evidence, taking action, checking progress, and reflecting on learning.

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Student Researcher Handbook

A field guide that helps young researchers listen deeply, think carefully, act responsibly, and learn openly. It includes practical research moves, checkpoints, and quick guides for working with community.

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Student Researcher Handbook: Grades 5–9

A clear, age-appropriate guide that helps students in Grades 5–9 listen, ask questions, take action, and learn with community. It provides accessible steps, checkpoints, and quick guides for the research journey.

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Teacher Handbook

A practical companion for educators planning, facilitating, assessing, and sustaining youth-led inquiry with community. It includes guidance on ethical practice, assessment, documentation, pacing, and facilitation throughout the nine-module journey.

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Research and Reporting Scaffolding

A research companion designed to help school leaders build an ethical and evidence-informed approach to improvement, formal research, and shared learning. It distinguishes routine school-improvement evidence from formal research while connecting both through one coherent learning system.

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