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Building a Culture of Hope
Enriching Schools With Optimism and Opportunity
Research demonstrates that children of poverty need more than just academic instruction to succeed. Discover a blueprint for 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.
Benefits
- Understand the relevance of Maslow's hierarchy of needs to K–12 education.
- Discover tested strategies behind the success of high-poverty, high-achieving schools.
- 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Poverty Is No Excuse
Chapter 2: The Tragedy of High School Dropouts
Chapter 3: A Culture of Hope
Chapter 4: A Sense of Optimism
Chapter 5: A Sense of Belonging
Chapter 6: A Sense of Pride, Self-Esteem, and Self-Confidence
Chapter 7: A Sense of Purpose
Chapter 8: The Power of We
Chapter 9: A Culture of Hope at the High School Level
Chapter 10: Hope Fulfilled
Appendix A: Methodologies of the Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report Studies
Appendix B: Surveys of Students and Staff
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 4
- Staff and Team Questionnaire: A Sense of Optimism
- Student Questionnaire: A Sense of Optimism
- Discussion Topics: A Sense of Optimism
Chapter 5
- Staff and Team Questionnaire: A Sense of Belonging
- Student Questionnaire: A Sense of Belonging
- Discussion Topics: A Sense of Belonging
Chapter 6
- Staff and Team Questionnaire: A Sense of Pride, Self-Esteem, and Self-Confidence
- Student Questionnaire: A Sense of Pride, Self-Esteem, and Self-Confidence
- Discussion Topics: A Sense of Pride, Self-Esteem, and Self-Confidence
Chapter 7
- Staff and Team Questionnaire: A Sense of Purpose
- Student Questionnaire: A Sense of Purpose
- Discussion Topics: A Sense of Purpose
Chapter 10
- Table 10.1: A Modern-Day Rite of Passage for Children of Poverty—Birth to Preschool
- Table 10.2: A Modern-Day Rite of Passage for Children of Poverty—Preschool to Grade 5
- Table 10.3: A Modern-Day Rite of Passage for Children of Poverty—Grades 6–8
- Table 10.4: A Modern-Day Rite of Passage for Children of Poverty—Adolescence
- Table 10.5: A Modern-Day Rite of Passage for Children of Poverty—Transition to Adulthood
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Appendix B
- Adlai E. Stevenson High School Student Surveys 2010–2011 (PDF)
- Adlai E. Stevenson High School Student Surveys 2009–2010 (PDF)
- Adlai E. Stevenson High School Student Surveys 2008–2009 (PDF)
- Adlai E. Stevenson High School Student Surveys 2007–2008 (PDF)
- College & Career Academy Support Network, University of California, Berkeley
- Career Clusters Initiative, CTE Works for America
- The Center for Educational Effectiveness
- ConnectEd, The California Center for College and Career
- Ford Next Generation Learning
- Idaho Building Capacity (IBC) Project
- National Academy Foundation
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