How to Increase Hope with Cathleen Beachboard Resilient Schools 9

Cathleen Beachboard is an award-winning educator, best-selling author, and leading innovative expert on raising psychological hope in schools. Her Building H.O.P.E.© framework has improved resilience, well-being, and achievement in thousands of schools across the country. As a sought-after speaker on well-being and retention, she provides practical tools and strategies for parents, educators, and school leaders to increase hope so students and staff can thrive.

• Hope is a positive cognitive process
• Hope is a mix of your goals, pathways and agency.
• Hope is determined in different ways.
• Hope is measurable.
• How do you increase your hope?
• Your hope level is similar to your friends. Introduce someone who is at a different level.
• Put a high hope kid next to a low-hope kid.
• Hope scale at Thrively
• If you’re high hope, spread it.
• If you’re low in hope, start improving your hope.
• Wherever you are lowest, start there.
• Low in pathways - one way to solve a problem.
• Backup plans show you that you can improve your plans.
• Will power and self-control.
• Even if you don’t have control, having back up plans help you feel more in control.
• Hope Research
• As hope increases, the impact of stress decreases.
• Teachers can be overwhelmed, too.
• Hope is the greatest way to impact secondary trauma.
• Mindset
• Looking at your culture and seeing what you already have in place and modify them to be more hopeful.
• Strategies for principals: vulnerability.
• Don’t let problems fester - give everyone a post it, write down the problem they’re having right now. Get out of silos. Problem speed-dating.
• Plan hopeful practices into their day. Write gratitude emails to three people each day.
• When we have a problem, we focus on the problem, vent about the problem for 1–2 minutes, then list all of your strengths, figure out how your strength can be used for your problem.
• Get the book The School of Hope?
• Connect with Cathleen on Twitter

• Simplify and streamline technology
• Save teachers’ time
• Reliably meet Tier 1 standards
• Improve student performance on state assessments