A key component of nurturing hope involves creating a pathway with students. This pathway helps them reach their goal and shows them that success is possible and probable! Read our blog to learn more on the importance of pathways for teaching students to hope.
To know what ‘better’ looks like for the student, it is key to help them define what they want to accomplish by setting a goal. Read to see the power in personally relevant goals and trauma-informed guidance.
Hope Rising SEL has developed My Best Me, a hope-centered and trauma-informed curriculum. But what does that mean? Here, we share our definition of Hope, what we do to nurture Hope in students, and how it makes a difference for individuals.
The Forming Lives OK EIGO helps to improve educational opportunities, among other benefits for public schools in our home state of Oklahoma.
Self-awareness is a critical emotional and logical skillset necessary in building a healthy functioning ego in all individuals. Using the technique of social emotional learning (SEL), educators can support healthy emotional growth in students, thereby improving their academic performance and confidence.
Teachers, your day to day life is demanding! It’s time to take a look at how you can juggle all the balls of home life and school life without having them crash down on you.
There are many things to consider when seeking a scholarship to aid in college expenses. If the task seems too great, here are answers to a few questions to get you started.
Summer was filled with late nights, extra treats, and unstructured days. But those don't support healthy learning now that school is starting again. Here are some tips for the transitions relating to sleep, nutrition and routines.
Multimedia learning provides so much more than plain text, both in content and in benefits for students! Here are four ways multimedia learning helps students succeed in their learning journeys.
Creating and maintaining supportive relationships is one of the building blocks of SEL. To best influence the social emotional needs of students, we must consider a crucial relationship that can help in this process: the relationship with their parents.
Just as our bodies get out of shape, our minds can get out of shape over the summer if we don’t engage them and keep them active. Here's a few ways to keep those young brains active over the summer time!
The strategies developed to nurture hope can show a statistically significant improvement in a child or adult in about one hour of Hope work. The simple methodology of Hope is based on three steps, but here’s the full outline of seven strategies used to Nurture Hope.
With summer in full swing, we hope teachers are finding ways to relax and de-stress. Here's a few ways teachers can make their own emotional health and wellbeing a priority this summer!
Learning the Students Way: Student-Centric Approach to SEL Many students struggle to learn effectiv...
Games are a way of teaching children social skills, strategy, math, problem-solving, and language, so they can keep their young minds sharp all summer! The kids are having so much fun that they don’t notice they’re learning. Read on for some of our top game selections!
When buying a curriculum for your classroom, it's important to weigh your options. Here are four benefits to digital textbooks for you and your students.
How integrating social-emotional learning (SEL) techniques can offer much relief for educators.
Spring Break means great opportunities to connect and build better relationships with your children or grandchildren.
I have had the incredible blessing of being a well-loved grandchild, and I have had the pure joy of being a grandmother. Both bring a smile to my face from ear to ear and memories that no one can take away.
Did you ever stop to consider what happens when you laugh? Stress hormones decrease; immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies increase improving resistance to disease. It truly is good medicine.
In a world where social media is forefront and judging others seems to be the norm, Hope Rising challenges you to teach your children to be kind.
Sometimes children suffer without a voice, and the results play out in tell-tale symptoms. The observant and perceptive teacher, caregiver, or grandparent would be wise to assist the child with getting help.
Mriam-Webster Dictionary defines bullying as this: abuse and mistreatment of someone vulnerable by someone stronger, more powerful; the behavior of a bully.
My daughter, Melissa’s, story of forgiveness is a beautiful example that I point to and remember for myself. Here’s her story...