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Building a Culture of Hope
Enriching Schools With Optimism and Opportunity
Discover a blueprint for turning low-performing, high-poverty schools into cultures of hope. The authors illustrate an approach that considers both social and emotional factors.
Building a Culture of Hope
Research demonstrates that children of poverty need more than just academic instruction to succeed. Discover a school-improvement blueprint for teaching resilience and turning low-performing schools into cultures of hope. The authors draw from their own experiences working with high-poverty, high-achieving schools to illustrate how to support students with an approach that considers social as well as emotional factors in education.
- Understand the relevance of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and positive psychology in K–12 education.
- Discover tested strategies behind the success of high-poverty, high-achieving schools in closing the achievement gap.
- Learn how to create intrinsic motivation for students impacted by adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and support them in overcoming learned helplessness.
- Access surveys that gauge the temperature of your school’s culture.
- Integrate the world of jobs and professional careers into academic curriculum.
- Support students with tools to envision and plan for the future.
- Define processes for building consensus and increasing collaboration among teachers and school leadership.
Understand how poverty affects education and how creating a positive school culture can help:
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Diversity & EquitySchool ImprovementSocial-Emotional Learning
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