This page is a gathering place for resources and strategies for implementing a Culture of Hope at a school or district level.
See Solution Tree website for reproducible surveys and tools from the book. For your convenience, these resources are available as PDFs in the Seeds of Hope section in this website.
National Dropout Prevention Center Tremendous resource and force. New report, Trauma Skilled Schools.
Ending Child Poverty Now Report from the Children's Defense fund, outlines a 9-point strategy for ending child poverty. Plan has just been introduced to California's new governor (December, 2018). Access full pdf here.
ASCD Poverty Resource Hub All of ASCD's resources related to poverty, in one place.
Center for Civic Education Curriculum, resources, and information about various Civic Education programs.
Curriculum Revitalization: Career & Technical Education Illinois Department of Education's CTE resource webpage.
Engaging Schools
Engaging Schools is a nonprofit organization that collaborates with educators in middle and high schools. Engaging Schools helps educators create schoolwide communities of learning that
integrate academic, social, and emotional development — and prepares
each and every student to succeed.Engaging Schools offers professional development and resources with practical
strategies that are grounded in the values of equity, community, and
democracy. Resource section is especially helpful, with many downloads and relevant blog posts.
Foxfire Foxfire is many things, including a magazine and a series of books. "Foxfire" is also a method of classroom instruction—not a step-by-step
checklist, but an over-arching approach that incorporates the original
Foxfire classroom's building blocks of giving students the opportunity
to make decisions about how they learn required material, using
the community around them as a resource to aid that learning, and
connecting the students' work with an audience beyond the classroom.
The Hope Survey See enormous collection of information, research, and resources. This is where you can access the Hope Survey to measure the level of hope in your schools.
Vancouver Public Schools Information about this districts innovative model of Family Community Recource Centers (FCRC).
Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports OSEP Technical Assistance Center The Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions
and Supports is established by the U.S. Department of Education's
Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to define, develop,
implement, and evaluate a multi-tiered approach to Technical Assistance
that improves the capacity of states, districts and schools to
establish, scale-up and sustain the PBIS framework. Emphasis is given to
the impact of implementing PBIS on the social, emotional and academic
outcomes for students with disabilities.
National Academy Foundation Information about Career Academies. Career academies focus on preparing students for post-secondary
education while providing them with the skills and experience necessary
to attain entry-level jobs. Students in career academies typically take
both career-themed and academic classes together. These courses are
linked to academic and industry standards and encourage high
achievement.
Idaho Building Capacity Project School Improvement Resource. Information about the Nine Characteristics of High Performing Schools (download PDF below). Assessment tools and applications.
Ford Next Generation LearningFord Next Generation Learning is improving teaching and learning,
promoting the redesign of schools to better serve students and their
families, and supporting the emergence of powerful community engagement. The three strands of the Ford PAS Next Generation Learning initiatives
are Transforming Teaching and Learning, Redesigning High Schools, and
Sustaining Change Through Business and Civic Leadership.
ConectEd--The California Center for College and Career Includes ConnectEd Studios, where students and teachers can access integrated curriculum units, media tools, and industry professionals (you'll need to register as a guest if your school/district is not connected yet, which is free).
Center for Educational Effectiveness Check out their Educational Effectiveness Surveys, as a potential measure of school culture elements. Vision: To develop and deliver data tools and services that inform and support school and district improvement. Mission: To increase student learning by improving the effectiveness of educational institutions.
Career & Technical Education's Career Clusters Vast treasure-trove of information and resources about Career Clusters in high school, and Career & Technical Education. Webinars, Career Cluster fact sheets, and much more.
