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Dr. Kevin Sheehan Molloy College Division of Education Kevin Rall The De La Salle School

Rediscovering Hope in Children of Poverty: THE ROLE OF HOPE AND GRIT IN SHAPING THE CONVERSATIONS IN OUR HEADS. Dr. Kevin Sheehan Molloy College Division of Education Kevin Rall The De La Salle School. Pick an NFL Quarterback from the Combine Scores. Self-Belief Trumps Ability.

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  1. Rediscovering Hope in Children of Poverty:THE ROLE OF HOPE AND GRIT IN SHAPINGTHE CONVERSATIONS IN OUR HEADS Dr. Kevin Sheehan Molloy College Division of Education Kevin Rall The De La Salle School

  2. Pick an NFL Quarterback from the Combine Scores

  3. Self-Belief Trumps Ability What we believe about our ability becomes our reality…

  4. There is a constant conversation in our head, often subconscious, that measures our belief on how we are doing….this talk is ongoing and ties into our emotions

  5. This conversation in our heads is the start of agentic goal motivation... our self-beliefWhat does this conversation sound like? I will do it

  6. Agency is I will do it (I will is different than I can)

  7. What is thing we call hope?We just love this word but what does it mean? Most of us have no clue what it means… I hope this is over soon. I hope that I leave with something of value That teacher is hopeless! The situation is hopeless. Hope and Change (Barrack Obama) He’s got high hopes! HOPE EQUALS WISHFUL THINKING FOR MOST OF US. These is a colloquial definition, but there is a psychological definition. C. R Snyder

  8. Hopeis the measure of our will to achieve a goal, our agency,added to our knowledge of what we have to do to achieve that goal, pathways, the ways to achieve a goal C. R Snyder: Rainbows in the Mind (2002)

  9. THE MORE TECHNICAL DEFINITION OF HOPE IS THE COMBINATION OF OUR AGENCY AND PATHWAYS(C.R. SNYDER-Hope Theory) GOALS + AGENCY BELIEF, WILINGNESS AND ENERGY THAT WE NEED TO ACHIEVE DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO ACHIEVE OUR GOALS (WILL POWER) + PATHWAYS BELIEF AND KNOWLEDGE THAT WE KNOW HOW TO ACHIEVE OUR GOALS AND HAVE MULTIPLE WAYS TO ACHIEVE OUR GOALS (WAY POWER)

  10. FOR YOU IN THE AUDIENCE, THOSE DEFINITONS MAY SOUND LIKE GOBBLEDY GOOK HOPE IS HOPE IS OUR MEMORY OF THE FUTURE CRAFTED ON OUR PRESENT AND PAST EXPERIENCES HOPE BECOMES OUR BELIEF THAT WE CAN POSITIVELY SHAPE THAT FUTURE.

  11. Hope Theory: Children’s Hope Test 1. I think I am doing pretty well. 2. I can think of many ways to get the things in life that are most important to me. 3. I am doing just as well as other kids my age. 4. When I have a problem, I can come up with lots of ways to solve it. 5. I think the things I have done in the past will help me in the future 6. Even when others want to quit, I know that I can find ways to solve the problem. None of A little of Some of A lot of Most of All of the time the time the time the time the time the time

  12. Why Hope Matters… • Better predictor of college completion • than SAT, ACT, HS GPA • Four times more likely to not finish • college with low hope than low ability • Research of Dr. Rose and Dr. Seirupconfirms this statistic locally demonstrating that low hope students on probation are at greatest risk of dropping out. • Shane Lopez Gallop Poll 2012

  13. HOPE LEVEL GPA EMOTIONAL & BEHAVIORAL ENGAGEMENT Altering a student’s hope level WILL improve a student’s academic performance.

  14. The Power of Hope and Goals

  15. Hope is not all about school! Hope matters in every aspect of our lives

  16. Hope in athletics…

  17. What happens when our hope is tested?What is the cold presser test?What is deliberate practice?(10,000 Hours)

  18. Hope Feedback and Feedforward Model • Grit • Passion for the • Goal • Perseverance • for the Goal

  19. Grit: We all tend to start out school with high hope.

  20. Our hope is tested when we face obstacles

  21. Dr. Angela Duckworth • What is that makes us successful in life… • What we get wrong • about • Grit • Passion for long term • goals • Perseverance

  22. Who Gets to Graduate?NY Times: Paul Tough 5/15/14Vanessa’s Story

  23. Vanessa’s Story May Be the Story for All Children of PovertyThe Graduation Gap

  24. SHATTERING THE ODDS:Can a School Actually Create Hope? Brother Thomas Casey’s MissionThe De La Salle School, Freeport, NY

  25. Ruby Payne: Seminal Work on Generational Poverty Although Payne’s (1993) work details the characteristics of children in poverty, none of those characteristics appear present in the gentleman of De la Salle

  26. What are the burdens of poverty ? a hope in a world that they cannot see in their present lives and current neighborhoods. Hope Theory

  27. The best news about hope is that it is a way of thinking and not an emotion that we are born with. If can we change our way of thinking, we can change our hope.

  28. HOPE BUILDERS. THE DE LASALLE SCHOOL. Success--Mastery Experiences Cheerleaders—Persuaders (The Dr. Phil Rule) Successful Friends—Vicarious Others Supportive Community--Positive Climate

  29. HOPE CRUSHERS Neighborhood Schools As Reported by Students. Failure—Destroys Willpower (Agency) Hope Crushers—Destroy Waypower (Pathways) Unsuccessful Friends—Why do that? Destructive Community--Negative Climate

  30. CTC: Rob Blount Hope Factory

  31. Sometimes, Hope arises not from someone who tells you that you can do it, but that person who tells you that you must do it! External Locus: Someone who inspires you is the source of your Hope. at first.

  32. If you believe you cannot,you are probably right. If you believe you can , you are probably right. Can A School Be Dedicated to Creating a Culture of Hope?. Kevin Rall: Dean of Students Hope Creator 32

  33. I Dream Big! Martin Luther King Day What are your dreams? (GOALS)

  34. DEDICATED FACULTY PERSUADERS

  35. It takes a team… Volunteers (MORE PERSUADERS

  36. Student of the Week Poet, Artist, Gentleman, Scholar of the Week (MASTERY EXPERIENCES)

  37. GOALS FINAL FOUR: MORE THAN HOOP DREAMS!

  38. Molloy Visit GOALS/PERSUADERS College Dreams

  39. EXTRA HELP Weds Nights MOLLOYMENTORS

  40. FAMILY FOREVER (Positive Climate)

  41. Life Long Connections Career Day Holy Trinity Christmas Dinner: Vicarious Others

  42. WHILE HAVING A BIT OF FUN Positive Social Climate

  43. ENVISONING A SUCCESSFUL FUTURE I DREAM BIG

  44. What happens after they graduate this extraordinary middle school? (2008-14) • Molloy Graduate Student Mentors

  45. Does Hope Float?  Can a designed program change a student’s hope level?

  46. Research Indicates Hope is Malleable McDermott and Snyder (2000) worked with culturally diverse students in grades one to six, presenting the students with high hope stories and asking the students to identify goals and relate stories to their own life experiences. The pre and post test results indicated increases in students’ levels of hopeful thinking. Making Hope Happen for Kids (Edwards and Lopez, 2000) was a five session program developed to increase hope in fourth graders. This program involved active learning approaches in which students acted out scenes of hope, created hope cartoons, played a hope game and reacted to hope stories. Again results on pre and post tests indicated significant increases in hope levels in the children involved in the program Pedrotti , Lopez and Krieshok (2000) developed a version of this same program for seventh graders based on the Making Hope Happen program.

  47. HOPE Lessons from De La Salle • Setting attainable goals with students through counseling • Exposing students to various colleges and universities via field trips • Conducting weekly award assemblies • Centering mission on Hope Theory and making the creation of Hope the mission of the school • Having faculty make curricular and affective connections to hope theory and grit concept • Increasing students hope levels through the greater agency and pathways opportunities—Future Problem Solving State Champs—Mock Trials • Providing insight to the value of education and extracurricular activities • Providing the spiritual foundation that students will need to sustain hope in the face of obstacles and challenges

  48. Shane Lopez: Changing the Conversations Our Heads It takes a team to build hope, it is not one of us, it is all of us

  49. Here is Edward Bear… Our Mission: Making Hope Happen Is the mission of a school to impart information or change the conversation in our heads…

  50. Can these lessonsbe applied to other contexts?What about students whoseem to have lost hope?

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