Mindfulness Introduction

Rediscovering Hope in Children of Poverty:

THE ROLE OF HOPE AND GRIT IN SHAPING THE CONVERSATIONS IN OUR HEADS

Dr. Kevin SheehanMolloy CollegeDivision of Education

Kevin RallThe De La Salle SchoolPick an NFL Quarterback from the Combine Scores

The defense is on the 9th right?2Self-Belief Trumps AbilityWhat we believe aboutour ability becomes our reality

3There is a constant conversation in ourhead, often subconscious, that measures our belief on how we are doing.this talk is ongoing and ties into our emotions

4This conversation in our heads is the start of agentic goal motivation... our self-belief What does this conversation sound like?

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

6What is thing we call hope? We just love this word but what does it mean? Most of us have no clue what it meansI 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)Hes got high hopes!

HOPE EQUALS WISHFUL THINKINGFOR MOST OF US.These is a colloquial definition, but there is a psychological definition.C. R Snyder

C. R Snyder: Rainbows in the Mind (2002)

Hope is 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 THE MORE TECHNICAL DEFINITION OF HOPE IS THE COMBINATION OF OUR AGENCY AND PATHWAYS(C.R. SNYDER-Hope Theory)GOALS+AGENCYBELIEF, WILINGNESS AND ENERGY THAT WE NEED TO ACHIEVE DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO ACHIEVE OUR GOALS (WILL POWER)+PATHWAYSBELIEF AND KNOWLEDGE THAT WE KNOW HOW TO ACHIEVE OUR GOALS AND HAVE MULTIPLE WAYS TO ACHIEVE OUR GOALS (WAY POWER)FOR YOU IN THE AUDIENCE, THOSE DEFINITONS MAY SOUND LIKE GOBBLEDY GOOKHOPE 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.Hope Theory: Childrens 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 timeWhy 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. Seirup confirms this statistic locally demonstrating that low hope students on probation are at greatest risk of dropping out.

Shane Lopez Gallop Poll 2012

Altering a students hope level WILL improve a students academic performance. HOPE

LEVELGPAEMOTIONAL& BEHAVIORALENGAGEMENT

The Power of Hope and Goals

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

15Hope in athletics

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

Hope Feedback and Feedforward Model

GritPassion for the GoalPerseverancefor the Goal

It might be interesting to make a new feedback model that includes grit to follow this. Maybe even happiness and life satisfaction?18Grit: We all tend to start out school with high hope.

Our hope is tested when we face obstacles

Dr. Angela DuckworthWhat is that makes us successful in lifeWhat we get wrong aboutGritPassion for long term goalsPerseverance

Who Gets to Graduate?NY Times: Paul Tough 5/15/14 Vanessas Story

Vanessas Story May Be the Story for All Children of Poverty

The Graduation Gap

SHATTERING THE ODDS:Can a School Actually Create Hope?

Brother Thomas Caseys MissionThe De La Salle School, Freeport, NYRuby Payne: Seminal Work on Generational Poverty Although Paynes (1993) work details the characteristics of children in poverty, none of those characteristics appear present in the gentleman of De la Salle

25What are the burdens of poverty ?

a hope in a world that they cannot see in their present lives and current neighborhoods.

Hope TheoryThe 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.

HOPE BUILDERS.THE DE LASALLE SCHOOL.Success--Mastery ExperiencesCheerleadersPersuaders (The Dr. Phil Rule)Successful FriendsVicarious OthersSupportive Community--Positive Climate

HOPE CRUSHERSNeighborhood Schools As Reported by Students.FailureDestroys Willpower (Agency)Hope CrushersDestroy Waypower (Pathways)Unsuccessful FriendsWhy do that?Destructive Community--Negative Climate

CTC: Rob Blount

Hope Factory

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.

3132If 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 I Dream Big! Martin Luther King DayWhat are your dreams? (GOALS)

PERSUADERSDEDICATED FACULTY

It takes a teamVolunteers(MORE PERSUADERS

Student of the WeekPoet, Artist, Gentleman, Scholar of the Week(MASTERY EXPERIENCES)

GOALSFINAL FOUR: MORE THAN HOOP DREAMS!Molloy VisitGOALS/PERSUADERSCollege Dreams

MOLLOYMENTORSEXTRA HELP Weds Nights

39FAMILYFOREVER(Positive Climate)

Life Long ConnectionsCareer DayHoly Trinity Christmas Dinner: Vicarious Others

WHILE HAVING A BIT OF FUNPositive Social Climate

ENVISONING A SUCCESSFUL FUTURE

I DREAM BIGMolloy Graduate Student Mentors What happens after they graduate this extraordinary middle school? (2008-14)

Does Hope Float?Can a designed program change a students hope level?

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.

HOPE Lessons from De La SalleSetting attainable goals with students through counselingExposing students to various colleges and universities via field tripsConducting weekly award assembliesCentering mission on Hope Theory and making the creation of Hope the mission of the schoolHaving faculty make curricular and affective connections to hope theory and grit conceptIncreasing students hope levels through the greater agency and pathways opportunitiesFuture Problem Solving State ChampsMock Trials Providing insight to the value of education and extracurricular activitiesProviding the spiritual foundation that students will need to sustain hope in the face of obstacles and challenges

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

Here is Edward BearIs the mission of a school to impart information or change the conversation in our heads

Our Mission: Making Hope HappenCan these lessonsbe applied to other contexts?

What about students whoseem to have lost hope?

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The Quiet Crisis:THE OTHER CONVERSATIONAlternative School StudentsOver 600,000 students in America64% Schools in America.

Storm Clouds in the MindCould it be the problem in our alternative school population is not a lack of ability on the part of the student, or the teacher, or the materials. BUT THE FACT THAT THESE STUDENTS HAVE LOST HOPE?

High Hope: The Other Side of ExcusesSnyders Rainbows in the Mind

ORIGINS OF LOW HOPE Deficits in the primary giver resulting in low attachment

Stages:Rage-Despair-ApathyResearch Questions:Research Question 1: Are hope and grit factorially distinct from one another?Research Question 2: Are there significant correlations among hope, grit, happiness, life satisfaction and academic achievement?Research Question 3: Are there statistically significant differences between alternative school students and traditional school students in hope, grit, happiness, life satisfaction, and academic achievement? Research Question 4: Do hope and grit scores predict academic achievement beyond happiness and life satisfaction? 55Results for Research Question 3: Are there statistically significant differences between alternative school students and traditional school students in hope, grit, behavioral engagement, happiness, life satisfaction and grade point average?

I wonder if reverse highlighting would be more impactful. Just highlight the non-significant to point out what was NOT different. 56Results for Research Question 4: Do hope and grit scores predict grade point average beyond engagement, happiness, and life satisfaction in student populations?

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Table 7. Tests of Between Subject Effects

PopulationSourceType III Sum of the SquaresMean Squares FSignificance

Traditional Hope Agency353.87353.8745.12.000**

Alternative

Traditional Hope Pathways30.333.9830.33.000**

Alternative

Traditional Hope Total587.88587.8824.06.000**

Alternative

Traditional Grit Consistency.49.49027.870

Alternative

Traditional Grit Perseverance373.31373.3128.64.000**

Alternative

Traditional Grit Total346.80346.809.01.000**

Alternative

Traditional Subjective Happiness13.9913.99.914.340

Alternative

Traditional Life Satisfaction1069.841069.83926.23.000**

Alternative

Traditional Academic Achievement21347.2421347.24342.85.000**

Alternative

** Statistically Significant P< .01 Table 8. Summary of Coefficient Effects in Hierarchal Multiple Regression Analysis

Model Unstandardized Coefficients Standardized

Coefficients

B Beta t Significance

Hope Agency2.22.5155.89.000**

Hope Pathways-1.12-2.30-2.74.007**

Grit Consistency-.209-.066-1.02.307

Grit Perseverance.822.242.90.004**

Life Satisfaction-16.08.93.35

Subjective Happiness-29-.08-1.08.28

** Statistically Significant P < .01