Building A Culture Of Hope: Enriching Schools With Optimism And Opportunity (School Improvement Strategies For Overcoming Student Poverty And Adversity)
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Building a Culture of Hope: Enriching Schools With Optimism and Opportunity (School Improvement Strategies for Overcoming Student Poverty and Adversity)
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 how poverty affects education and how creating a positive school culture can help:
Contents:
Introduction
Part One: An Apartheid of Ignorance
Chapter 1. Poverty Is No Excuse
Chapter 2. The Tragedy of High School Dropouts
Chapter 3. A Culture of Hope
Part Two: The Four Seeds 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
Part Three: Implementing a Culture of Hope
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
Glossary
References and Resources
Index
Specification of Building a Culture of Hope: Enriching Schools With Optimism and Opportunity (School Improvement Strategies for Overcoming Student Poverty and Adversity)
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Author | Robert Barr |
Binding | Paperback |
Language | English |
Edition | |
ISBN-10 | 1936764628 |
ISBN-13 | 9781936764624 |
Publisher | Solution Tree |
Publication Date | 2013 |
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Height | 10 inch. |
Length | 0.71 inch. |
Width | 7.03 inch. |
Weight | 1.35 pounds pounds. |
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