story builders define student strengths and opportunities

Strategy 1: Descriptive Grading - A chapter in a child's education journey

Strategy 2: a Letter about you - Rewriting student stories by comparing to where they started

Storytellers listen to build bridges of shared joy, challenges, ideas and understandings

Strategy 6: Creating Forum for Learner-centered listening engages students

strategy 7: hope accelerator: Cultural bridges built through a fashion show

strategy 8: It's a dream. It's a journey: Collaborating on a song builds a community story

meaning weavers agree on community values and assets

strategy 12: Meaning Making Question: How do we complement each other?

strategy 13: Everyone is from somewhere - discover regional traditions

strategy 14: Meaning Making: We are strong & we thrive when we feel obligated to each other

meaning weavers connect stories from the past to the choices we make today

strategy 18: tree of feelings: Making meaning of injustice by honoring our emotions

strategy 19: greek mythology and environmental change: Meaning Making through geomythology connects biodiversity with history.

strategy 20: Me As a Hero: Making Meaning of History to Inspire Change Today

meaning weavers honor each individual as the expert on their own experience

strategy 24: Every Child has Talent: Language is Powerful Meaning Making

strategy 25: Welcome families to share the institutions & organizations they value as a partnership tool

strategy 26: Empower students to understand how scaffolding leads to success

architects of hope express values, vision and hope through collective art

strategy 30: Guernica: A painting helps process historical traumas to create hope across Greece

strategy 31: Heraklion Peace Banners: messages of peace help children see a hopeful future.

ARCHITECTS OF HOPE model active citizenship and civic participation

strategy 34: A citizenship portfolio models good decision making and informed choices

ARCHITECTS OF HOPE celebrate school community assets with the community

strategy 35: Exhibits welcome the community in and forge connections using technology

Story builders empower & Equip every child to tell their own story

Strategy 3: Equip students with storytelling tools using collaborative class books

Strategy 4: How I see it: Different ages see different things and all deserve a voice

Strategy 5: each child's story: creating your “own small thing” to contribute to a peaceful community

Storytellers share hopes, plans and visions for the future

Strategy 9: Food & Art facilitate Collaborating on Stories of Hope

Strategy 10: Peer2Peer: When conversations begin with cultural humility we can better tell stories of hope

Strategy 11: Peer2Peer: Understanding Others Today makes our plans and visions brighter

meaning weavers stitch together a picture of what brings your community life

strategy 15: Asking questions about how communities are interconnected weaves meaning from Greek olives.

strategy 16: Meaning Making with children and families: Spaces to play are community spaces that tell a story

strategy 17: foraging for community wisdom: Constructing the Meaning of Natural Assets

meaning weavers include voices that have been excluded to create a clearer picture

strategy 21: Yes! Women Participated: Weaving Women’s Contributions into Every Story

strategy 22: Guess the IT of the month: Meaning making includes women

strategy 23: To Make Meaning of the Experiences of All Students, Investigate Cultural Capital

architects of hope imagine a future of hope

strategy 27: Learn from the Sustainable Development Goals: A Document of Hope

strategy 28: collaborative art: Expressions of Hope All Around

strategy 29: Hope is a Future You Define: lessons from Technical High School belonging

​architects of hope are open to creating alongside learners

strategy 32: How should we share our knowledge with the community? Empower students to be part of the community conversation

strategy 33: schedia art programs: Co-creating with students creates a hopeful atmosphere.

ARCHITECTS OF HOPE affirm who WE are together

strategy 36: Congratulations on your creativity! Using language to encourage and support connection

strategy 37: Empathy for refugees fleeing war emerges naturally when analyzing a Hemingway short story

strategy 38: WoMentors: Diverse women find welcome and belonging when they focus on issues