“Many Independent Schools spend significant time and resources examining issues of diversity. Often these efforts produce limited results, despite extensive discourse on the part of school community members. This workshop will explore Community-Based Action Research, a collaborative research model based on the assumption that all community stakeholders will engage in the inquiry process. Stakeholders acquire information, reflect on that information, and use it to transform or clarify their understanding of the issue under investigation. Finally, the school can move forward with concrete action steps. Participants will gain tools to initiate an action research project to address a pertinent diversity issue in their school.”