Building a Culture of Hope (2013, Solution Tree) explains how the effects of poverty can be reversed by focusing on social/emotional factors in education.
Building a Culture of Hope: Enriching Schools With Optimism and Opportunity draws on authors Robert D. Barr and Emily L. Gibson’s work with high-poverty, high-performing schools across the United States to explain how the failure of our schools, evidenced in high dropout rates and low morale among teachers and students, can be reversed by an approach that pays close attention to social and emotion
al factors in education. K–12 educators will discover the keys for operating high-poverty, high-achieving schools; understand the roles teachers, parents, and the community play in student success; access tools to help students envision and plan their future; and gain strategies to support students’ emotional and social development from kindergarten to postsecondary school. In addition to research and lists of programs to support teachers building a culture of hope, educators can read the accounts of other teachers, counselors, and stakeholders in high-poverty, high-performing schools who are already implementing the authors’ advice.
