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Version: 10 Nov 2023 Page 1 of 6 California State University Long Beach Project Title: Afrocentric Values, Positive Youth Development, and Black Youth Investigator(s): Isaiah Ringo Project Contact: 818-482-0810 Faculty Advisor(s): Dr. M. Keith Claybrook Jr. Faculty Advisor(s) Contact: M.Keith.Claybrook@csulb.edu California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) College of Liberal Arts, CSULB: 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840 PARENT/GUARDIAN PERMISSION FORM – SOCIAL-BEHAVIORAL Afrocentric Values, Positive Youth Development, and Black Youth Introduction Hello, my name is Isaiah Ringo. I am a student in the College of Liberal Arts at CSULB. I am working with my Faculty Advisor (FA), Professor Dr. Claybrook, on a research study. With your permission I would like to invite your child to participate in this study. Before you and your child decide whether he/she will be part of this study, it’s important for both of you to understand why we’re doing the research and what’s involved. Please read this form carefully. (Your child will receive his/her own assent form.) I encourage you to discuss the study with your child. If you or your child has questions about the research, feel free to ask me. Purpose I am inviting your child to participate because they are a part of the BSU program at Aspire Public Schools . Whether or not your child participates in the study will have no effect on his or her grades if a school-related study or on his or her relationship with the organization engaged with the research. Procedures If you give your permission and your child/youth decides to participate, I will ask him/her to:  Be interviewed I will ask your child to participate in an interview with me . If your child agrees to be interviewed, I will meet with him/her. This will be at a place that is convenient for your child on the school site of Aspire Public Schools. I will ask your child questions about the way he/she studies and learns. I will take notes on our discussion. With your permission and your child's assent, I will also audiotape the interview. The taping is to accurately record the information he/she provides. If your child chooses not to be audiotaped, I will only take notes. If he/she agrees to being audiotaped but feels uncomfortable at any time during the interview, I can turn off the tape recorder, or stop the interview at his/her request at any time. The interview will take about 15-30 minutes.

Version: 10 Nov 2023 Page 2 of 6  Be surveyed I will ask your child to participate in an survey. Participants can agree to both the survey and the interview, disagree to both, or choose to participate in either the survey or the interview. If your child agrees to the survey, I will meet with him/her. This will be at a place that is convenient for your child on the school site of Aspire Public Schools. I will ask your child to take about 10 minutes to complete the survey. The survey will consist of questions concerning how Black Student Union has affected their sense of community and created friendships. Total time : The questionnaire will take about 10 minutes of your child's time. If your child also has an interview, the whole study will take about 4 0 5-50 minutes . Benefits The possible direct benefits to the participants would be the opportunities to share their experiences of being Black individuals and opportunities to reflect on positive aspects of their racial identity. This research will allow for opportunities in educational leadership practice, education policies, and future research in Africana studies. Risks/Discomforts  Your child might get bored or tired and decide that he or she does not want to complete the study activities. If so, your child can tell me that he or she wishes to stop.  Your child may feel coerced to participate. Your child can choose to skip any of the interview and/ or survey questions or withdraw from the study. Also, you or a staff member can be present during the interview if desired.  Breach of Confidentiality: A possible risk for any research is that confidentiality could be compromised, that is, people outside the study might get hold of confidential study information. I will do everything I can to minimize this risk. Confidentiality I will keep your child's study data as confidential as possible. If I publish or present the results of this study, I will not use individual names or other personally identifiable information. To help protect confidentiality, I will keep all information in a password protected laptop that only I can access. I plan to keep this information for 2 years should I need to use it later for other studies. I will follow the same steps to keep it as confidential as possible. Participants are able to have access to their transcriptions. If requested, I will send the guardian/parent and the participant via email. Compensation/Payment Your child will receive a $30 Amazon Gift Card as a thank-you for the time and effort to take part in this study. Compensation will be received through email after the completion of the participants partaking in the survey or and interview questions. Rights

Version: 10 Nov 2023 Page 4 of 6 California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) Assent to be in a Research Study for Children 7-12 Years of Age AFROCENTRIC VALUES, POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, AND BLACK YOUTH Hello, I am Isaiah Ringo, a student who is doing research representing CSULB . Why do you think I am meeting and talking with you? I want to tell you about a research study I am doing. A research study is when a person called an investigator collects information to learn more about something. An example of a research study is collecting information about how often teachers catch colds. I am doing a research study to learn more about kids who are Black students in elementary school and how Afrocentric teachings positively affect their growth. After I tell you about it, I will ask if you’d like to be in this study. I am writing this after your parents and the school gave me permission for you to participate in the study. Why am I doing this study? I am doing this study as I want to find out about Black students and their growth after being introduced to Afrocentric school lessons, so I am getting information from lots of kids like you who are Black elementary students. Altogether, there will be about 15 kids in the study. What will happen to you if you are in this study? If you say yes to be in the study, these activities will happen: You will be interviewed for about 15 minutes at school, take a survey on Afrocentric teachings, and be audio recorded for notes that I have to write for research.  You will be asked to do an interview, which will take about 15-30 minutes.  You will be asked to participate in a survey, which will take about 10 minutes.  If you agree to participate in the interview, you will be asked for permission to audio record the interview so I can write down notes for my project.  You can participate in the survey, the interview, both the survey and the interview, or none at all.

Version: 10 Nov 2023 Page 5 of 6 Will anything good happen for me by being in the study? You will get the opportunity to share your experience of being a Black individual and look at positive areas of identifying as Black. Will you get anything for being in the study? If you finish the study, you can get a $30 Amazon gift card. Do you have any questions? You can ask me questions any time during the study. You can ask now. You can ask me later. You can talk to me, or you can talk to someone else working on the study. Do you have to be in this study? No, you don’t have to be in the study. No one will be mad at you if you don’t want to do this. If you start the study and you want to stop, just tell me or your parent/guardian. If you say yes or you say no to being in the study, it won’t affect your grades. You can stop at any time and go back to class. Do you have any more questions about the study? Do you want to be in this study? If you don’t want to be in this study, just tell me no. Can anything bad happen if I participate in this study? There are questions in the interview about your experience as an African-American person. There might be some questions that trigger past racial problems. If you do not want to answer the questions, I can skip the questions or stop the interview.