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This is a compilation of case study reports and videos from school participatory budgeting conducted in various schools in Arizona from the Center for the Future of Arizona.

A short case study of a participatory project in Aberdeenshire, Scotland to fund school projects related to climate change and carbon reduction.

A case study and video of a school participatory budgeting project in Northen Ireland.

A guide published by UNICEF España that supports local governments in involving children and adolescents in participatory budgeting processes.

An article about a legislative theater program involving university students tackling sexual haraassment.

An article exploring how student participation through mini-publics (deliberative assemblies) affects university governance and deliberative capacity.

A practical manual designed for educators to implement the techniques of theatre of the oppressed in classroom or community settings.

A case-study article examining a six-month legislative theatre project in the UK that engaged young people in youth-parliament structures and theatre-driven decision-making.

An educator-guide explaining how to introduce the concept of sortition (random selection) and citizens’ assemblies into school settings.

This set of materials adapted from the Washington Student Climate Assembly includes lesson plans on civic engagement, participation and deliberation, as well as other materials for educators to use in their classrooms.

This paper explores how classroom deliberation can be made more inclusive through facilitation practices and design choices.

A practical guide describing eleven steps for organising deliberative assemblies in school settings, with young people selected by civic lottery.

A practical article outlining how to set up deliberative assemblies in high schools using sortition (lottery) to select participants.

A condensed guide offering eleven steps to design and run a deliberative assembly in a high-school context, focused on youth participation through sortition (lottery-selection).

An empirical study examining how online deliberation tools (specifically Decidim and pol.is) were used to complement a largely face-to-face deliberative process in a student assembly at Université Paris‑Est Créteil.

The UNIDELIB network collates publications and reports from participating academic institutions around the use of deliberative methodologies in universities.

This video and ready-to-use presentation explain the use of PB to address the climate crisis in school communities.

A case study of how Lithuanian schools have implemented participatory budgeting (PB) initiatives, engaging students in decision-making over school budget expenditures.

A youth-engagement initiative by the Brno City Municipality in the Czech Republic which enables primary school pupils to have a direct role in budgeting decisions about their school environment.

This journal article examines how youth-led participatory budgeting (PB) initiatives in school settings affect student empowerment, decision-making capacity, and democratic engagement.

A guide with open questions designed to help schools implement a participatory budgeting process where students directly engage in decision-making over a school’s budget.

A guidance document from the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) that explains why evaluation is important in school-based participatory budgeting (PB) and outlines what kind of data to collect and how.

A landscape report by the Participatory Budgeting Project that examines how school and district policies support—or hinder—youth-led participatory budgeting (PB) efforts in U.S. K-12 settings.

A step-by-step curriculum prepared by the Participatory Budgeting Project for educators to run a youth-led participatory budgeting (PB) process in a classroom or school setting.

A practical guide from the Participatory Budgeting Project for U.S. schools and districts outlining how to move from pilot efforts in participatory budgeting (PB) to more established, sustainable practices.

A data-rich review of youth political participation and policies (1980–2023), for designing youth-inclusive programs.

Report analyzing several cases of how climate assemblies contribute to inclusive and effective environmental decision-making.

A practical Estonian guide for municipalities on how to implement participatory budgeting, with legal templates and communication advice.

Assessment of usability and accessibility of 50 participatory budgeting websites to improve digital civic participation.

Checklist to evaluate and improve the usability of participatory budgeting digital platforms.