Benefits: Learn About PAR strategies & Strengthen our PAR Practices Apply PAR to community organizing around issues of (in)justices in education and housing Grow an Online PAR Community Hub to share resources Participate in workshops about housing and education justice Exchange Transformative Success Stories Grow Peer-to-Peer Mentorship Build Community Collaborations
Boston-Based PAR Network Meeting Overview: 9/13/25
The Boston PAR Network held a successful collaboration meeting on September 13th, 2025 at the Healthy Neighborhood Study Conservation Law Foundation office. We would like to thank everyone who attended and shared their thoughts.
During the meeting, we focused on a variety of projects such as researching with love presented by Amy Collinsworth, a housing affordability report card presented by Shinelle Kirk, and climate justice and building a greater PAR network in Boston presented by One Square World. Educators, students, and residents alike joined us in learning and discussing community collaborative work.
As we continue to move forward during an ever-changing time period for our neighborhoods, working together and sharing our knowledge is an essential in order to reach our goals and continue to turn our research into action.
Our next meeting will be on October 18th, 2025. We hope to see you there!
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Tara Gully-Hightower is an educator committed to the academic success of urban youth as evidenced by over twenty years of teaching in Boston area colleges, high schools, and middle schools.
She earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Urban Education Policy, and Leadership Studies at UMass Boston. Her dissertation work includes running a Participatory Action Research project with community college students to increase college completion rates, especially for students first in their families to attend college, low-income students, and students of color.
Before teaching English, Writing, and Humanities in Boston, Cambridge, and Chelsea, she taught Literature and Humanities for The Transitional Year Program at Brandeis University. Presently, she teaches English at Massasoit Community College in Brockton.
Tara earned an M.A. in English and American Language and Literature from The Harvard University Extension School and an Ed. M. in Education and Curriculum Development from The Harvard Graduate School of Education. She earned her B.A. in English and American Language and Literature from Brandeis University. She is a graduate of the Fenway High School in Boston.
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