The School of Hope : The Journey From Trauma and Anxiety to Achievement, Happiness, and Resilience

Discover how to improve achievement, happiness, and resilience using the science of hope The current mental health crisis is driving many teachers to leave the profession while students struggle with engagement and anxiety. Trauma-informed coping mechanisms are helpful, but this book goes a step further by incorporating much-needed but often-missing support to help learners feel hopeful and provide educators with resources to care for themselves. Based on research around the psychological science of hope, this guidebook provides strategies educators and school leaders can use daily to help students feel secure, build relationships, and improve academic outcomes. Included are practices and interventions that can be woven into classrooms and schools to foster mental wellness and happiness using * Classroom materials, tools, and reproducibles * Scientific resources to quickly assess and monitor hope * Simple plans of action to improve hope, engagement, and motivation * Vignettes from classrooms and the author’s own experiences with children who have experienced extreme trauma Backed by the latest research, The School of Hope will encourage higher academic attainment and equity, inspiring a sense of deeper fulfillment for both students and educators. "There is a mental health crisis happening right now. Teachers are leaving the profession in vast quantities and students are struggling to stay engaged. Even before the COVID-19 crisis, major depression was on the rise in the U.S. for teens and adolescents. School counselors and school psychologists are overwhelmed, and teachers are not trained to help assist their students or colleagues with their mental well-being. This book fills the void. It is not an SEL curriculum, but instead provides tools and strategies that can be woven into classrooms and schools to foster mental wellness, resilience, and hope. By incorporating simple practices, educators can provide much-needed support to retain teachers, help students stay engaged, and give people resources to care for themselves. Organized around H.O.P.E (Healing, Optimism, Purpose, Empathy) themes, the book provides quick practical strategies educators and leaders can use daily to help students feel secure, build relationships, and improve academic outcomes. Current trauma-informed books offer coping mechanisms but not tools to go beyond the healing. In other words, they offer suggestions for alleviating the effects of trauma instead of providing tools to help people heal and restore people to their original state of well-being. The School of Hope features the Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire (CASQ) and Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ) so that educators will be able to get a hope baseline to track and use with students and staff and know when to shift from trauma-informed care to practices that increase hope and mental wellness"-- Provided by publisher Discover how to improve happiness, resilience, and achievement using the science of hope Based on research around the psychological science of hope, this guidebook provides strategies educators and school leaders can use daily to help students feel secure, build relationships, and improve academic outcomes. Included are actions and interventions that can be woven into classrooms and schools to foster mental wellness and happiness, such as Classroom materials, tools, reproducibles, and videos Scientific resources to quickly assess and monitor hope Simple plans of action to improve hope, engagement, and motivation Vignettes from classrooms and the author's own experiences with children who have experienced extreme trauma THE SCHOOL OF HOPE - FRONT COVER 1 DEDICATION 7 THE SCHOOL OF HOPE 8 COPYRIGHT 9 QUICK USE GUIDE 10 CONTENTS 12 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 15 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 17 ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR 18 A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR 19 CHAPTER 1 - HOPE MAKERS 22 CHAPTER 2 - HEALING 34 CHAPTER 3 - OVERCOMING 64 CHAPTER 4 - PLANNING 102 CHAPTER 5 - ENERGIZING 136 CHAPTER 6 - THE SCHOOL OF HOPE 168 REFERENCES/NOTES 178 INDEX 184