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Building Hope to Realize Dreams

As a student, educator or staff member, you are part of a learning journey that is interconnected and personal. Your ability to create transformation for yourself and others already exists.  Unlocking that potential brings out our best version.

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A quality education  facilitates and grows a passion for learning. One that thrives on and fosters curiosity, creativity, and inquiry; one that activates student and teacher agency.

– Dr. Steven J. Rippe, Executive Director

committed to Supporting

Schools of Hope

Schools that build autonomy, belongingness, and relational competence in teachers and students experience high levels of engagement and overall hope. We support efforts to optimize, mature, and be intentional about being a School of Hope.  

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Vision

We envision all schools as transformational places of hope
where students and educators can realize their dreams—individually and collectively.

Mission

We are dedicated to making hope a tangible, lived reality. Through transformative hope theory and experiential learning, we activate individual and collective potential.  By strengthening autonomy and voice, purposeful and personal goal-setting, and confident agency, we collaborate with schools to cultivate thriving learning communities, engaging experiential classrooms, and impactful peer-learning and leadership relationships.

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For Transformational Peer Learning


 Students, Teachers and Staff strive for:

  • Voice and choice in all decisions that impact the learning environment
  • A sense of shared values and goals with your school and the community it thrives in
  • Capacity building of your talents and skills to achieve your goals
  • A focus on building relationships with coworkers and students
  • Mastering of relevant protocols and processes learning

We support your development to be a School of Hope with happy, healthy, and engaged students both now and in the future.

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WHAT WE DO TOGETHER


1. Relational Learning Community

Facilitating individuals to build and optimize belonging, agency, and leadership through collaborative relationships. 

2. Hope Practices

Empowering students and staff to learn the key elements of Hope through peer learning, peer leadership and networking experiences. Facilitating a network of Schools of Hope.

3. Integrated Experiential Learning

Engaging planned and spontaneous experiential innovations into the academic, social-emotional learning, and peer leadership framework of the school, thereby motivating learning while deepening understanding of the world and others.

4. Peer Learning and Leadership

Inspiring peer engagement in the life of the school to activate the power of voice, and drive student and staff agency.
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Come join our Cohort to grow hope through experiential learning - together!