Educators need support in learning a trauma-informed perspective and Hope Rising has designed a hope-based emotional intelligence curriculum that both supports educators and teaches students positive, resilient behaviors.
The rate of students in the U.S. who are or have experienced at least one traumatic event is staggering: at least two-thirds of the students in every U.S. classroom.
As educators, we want to be as prepared as possible to support students as they process these experiences and lead them to a more hopeful, promising future.
Hope Rising has created a hope-based emotional intelligence curriculum, called "My Best Me", which provides educators with the tools they need to create a supportive, positive, and hopeful classroom.
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✦ The Effects of ACEs ✦
66% of adults in the United States have endured at least one adverse childhood experience (ACE) in their lifetime. As such, educators can expect that two-thirds of their students will have experienced at least one traumatic event, or ACE, by the age of 16.
These experiences can lead students to have learning impairments, difficulty regulating their emotions in class, or an overwhelming sense of being unsafe or unable to trust their teachers and classmates.
✦ How Hope Can Heal ✦
"My Best Me" focuses on building trust, empathy, respect, and openness in the classroom. You can use the detailed lessons to establish an open dialogue with your students about personal development issues that would be inappropriate for other class times.
The curriculum teaches students about their identity and role in relationships, the importance of mental, emotional, and physical health, and the power of setting and achieving goals and practicing positive thinking.
The lessons in "My Best Me" are fully-structured and are designed to be taught in 45-minute blocks, however, you can organize them as you see fit. These lessons are non-sequential, so you can pair them with corresponding sections of your primary curriculum or even match them with current events.
Along with the interactive student materials for "My Best Me", educators receive a teacher guide, online teacher training, and access to a private Facebook group where teachers can collaborate, ask questions, and share ideas.
✦ About Hope Rising ✦
Hope Rising's "My Best Me" curriculum was certified by the Hope Research Center at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa. This certification means that "My Best Me" teaches hope as a psychological mindset that drives resilient behaviors in students and educators. Hope Rising strives to use the evolving research on the science of hope to continually improve and deepen its emotional intelligence curriculum.
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