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Gretchen Brion-Meisels is a senior lecturer whose research seeks to explore partnerships between youth and adults that support both individual and collective development. She is particularly interested in using youth participatory action research to investigate and reform student support efforts, as well as to build a positive school climate. Brion-Meisels has participated in a variety of research projects including investigations of adolescents' perspectives of schooling and community-based work, social emotional learning in schools, holistic student support systems, and the intersections of bullying and discrimination in prevention research and practice. Her courses focus on supporting positive youth development, creating loving educational spaces, and partnering with youth in educational research and practice.
Since its founding in 2017, the Winthrop Park School (WPS) has offered programs for teachers and students with a focus on fostering educational innovation and opportunity. The now expanded WPS Institute strives to advance models of schooling where learning thrives everywhere, in classrooms and beyond; where students and their families are empowered to shape their own educational journeys; and where entire communities contribute to the development of young people. Currently, the WPS Institute includes three distinct but related initiatives: the Salem Public Schools Community Innovation initiative, the Newton Community Learning Lab, and the Summer Leadership Institute. The proposed work would evaluate the Summer Leadership Institute a three-week summer learning experience for 40+ Boston-area youth as well as the subsequent Innovation Internships, which will be offered to up to 16 youth during the 2024-2025 academic year. The purpose of this evaluation would be both to collect formative data that might be used to iterate and improve programming in its pilot year, and to collect summative data that would be used to demonstrate program efficacy. In this way, the R&D plan fits with the WPS Institutes strategic anchor of running our programs and ourselves as an R&D lab, and supports its core outcomes of building an Education Everywhere ecosystem in the Northeast that empowers learners.
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