Key partners and co-learners in the YPAR work that contributes to this website are the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD), represented by Nick D’Amico and Bill Stencil and former members Josh Terchek and Matt Linick; the American Institutes for Research (AIR), represented by Sarah Peko-Spicer and Elisabeth Davis; and the Educational Service Center of Northeast Ohio, represented by Wendy Jovan and Bill Wagner and former member Dennis Kowalski.

Two teams of educators and students are engaged in design work that contributes to this resource. One is designing school-based YPAR in Cleveland through an initiative called Project HighKEY (High-school Knowledge and Education through YPAR) and includes Karmel Abutaleb, Robyn Mwila, Sarah Schwab, Drew Retherford, Sarah Spinelli, Robyn Williams, Taylor Zepp, Akia Evans, Madyson Hendrix, Taylor Hostetter, Wali Maxwell, Ruben Rivera Quinones, Joshua Sanchez, and Jayleen Santos and former members Alison Fiorucci, Rie Fortin, Josiah Holt, and Milena Wick. Project HighKEY is an initiative of the Cleveland Alliance for Education Research (CAER), a research-practice partnership of the Center for Urban Education at CSU, CMSD, and AIR. 

A second is engaged in designing SchYPAR in more than two dozen school districts in Northeast and Central Ohio that include Jennifer Bill, Able Binyam, Lynden Bryant, Henry Clay, Jack Conrath, Gray Cooper, Karla Eberhardt, Tamya Ellis, Mohamed Elsayed, Aden Ewing, Nandi Grant, Andrew Huffman, Essence Jackson, Braylan James, Taliyah Kent, Caroline Kuiken, Sophie Marblestone, Lynn Monaco, Mia Neil, Katie O’Shaughnessy, Ramsey Piazza, Khiara Rice, Steve Shapiro, Amada Stanoszek, Harini Subramanian, and Joanne Williams. 

Lastly, hundreds of students and educators over the past several years have helped shape this SchYPAR resource through their work, ideas, and energies through several YPAR initiatives: the First Ring Student Leadership Institute of the Educational Service Center of Northeast Ohio, the Student Leadership Research Collaborative of the Educational Service Center of Central Ohio, and Project HighKEY of CAER.  

Most of the activities and handouts on this website are adapted or linked from two outstanding and longstanding YPAR resources: the Berkeley YPAR Hub from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Youth Engaged in Leadership and Learning curriculum from the John W. Gardner Center at Stanford University. SchYPAR credits these groups’ creative contributions and hopes to elevate them here.

Thank you to our funders who have helped support and grow this work, including the Institute for Education Sciences (grant #R305A200305), the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (grant #S411C210069) of the U.S. Department of Education and the William T. Grant Foundation.