- Toolkits
- Are You Ready to Talk?
- Beyond the Line
- Blocking Gender Bias
- Edgy Veggies
- First-Gen Ascend
- Fishbowl Discussions
- Measuring Mobility
- Peaceful Politics
- Plot the Me You Want to Be
- RaceWorks
- Rethinking Stress
- Space Reface
- Team Up Against Prejudice
- United States of Immigrants
- Kit Companion: Map Your Identities
- Kit Companion: LARA
- Collections
- Action Areas
- About
SPARQtools are digital toolkits that translate research into user-friendly formats that practitioners and educators can use to spark psychological, behavioral, and societal change. Each toolkit shares evidence-based materials and resources that can be put right to use to tackle issues from empowering students to engage across difference, encouraging people to eat healthy, or helping researchers measure important indicators of economic mobility. Explore individual toolkits to address specific problems, or dive into a collection to take on bigger issues.
TOOLKITS BY ACTION AREA
Education
The RaceWorks toolkit, a collaboration with Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity, provides educators and facilitators with tools to help students and coworkers learn and talk about race.
From the Stanford Diversity and First-Gen Office and SPARQ:
Start here → Are You Ready to Talk?
Quick exercises for preparing to discuss differences
A group activity for exploring diversity
A format for asking sensitive questions and getting honest answers
This writing task helps women succeed in STEM
This panel discussion boosts first-generation students’ grades
This shift in perspective reduces political tensions
This future-mapping task lifts grades
These cues help women and people of color feel welcome
This way of working together lessens bias
This brief reading increases support for immigrants
Economic Mobility
Measuring Mobility From Poverty
The Measuring Mobility toolkit, a collaboration with the Urban Institute and the US Partnership on Mobility From Poverty, helps development practitioners choose and use psychological and economic measures.
Download a brief about the project here.
Health
Videos to help people rethink stress to enhance work and health
Reframe eating healthy to promote better food choices
Criminal Justice
Principled Policing
This officer training program helps improve police-community relations. SPARQ limits access to the toolkit. Please contact us at stanford_sparq@stanford.edu if you would like to use it.
