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Writing Hope Found in Uncertain Times is a book written by and for preservice and inservice English language arts teachers and teacher educators looking to share stories and strategies of hope found in educational contexts, leading to a hopefulness in life too. This book is a physical manifestation of hoping aloud and answers intentional hope inquiries including,'How can hope, the action-based hope that moves systems and circumstances forward, be found and grown in vulnerable times through education and writing in ELA classrooms?'Arguably, action-based hope may be one of the most valuable outcomes educational systems can offer students, teachers, staff, and administrators. This collection of research-based, narrative-driven essays is one'hope moment'in time that can lead to other explorations and destinations of hope in education and beyond. Each chapter is a story, with retelling, remembering, and celebrating hope found. Contributors are: Sean Brady, Emily Carty, Kerrin Denue, Nicole DuBois-Grabkowitz, Lindsey Gordon, Jonathan Hock, Katie Hoffmann, Diana Jones-Sukhram, Elizabeth A. Morphis, Kate Oberg, Cait O'Connor, Kasey O'Connor, Josefa Pace, Jenna Palmeri, Christopher Perkowski, Heather Lynn Rieger, Jake Roche, and Nicole Sieben.

By showcasing asset-based approaches inspired by individual reflection, research, and experience, this volume offers a fresh and timely perspective on grief and trauma within higher education and illustrates how these approaches can serve as opportunities for hope and allyship.Featuring a broad range of contributions from scholars and professionals involved in educational research and academia, Humanizing Grief in Higher Education explores the varied ways in which students, scholars, and educators experience and navigate grief and trauma. Set into four distinct parts, chapters deploy personal narratives situated within interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research frameworks to illustrate how issues such as race, gender, socio-economic class, and politics intersect with experiences of personal and professional grief in the academy. A variety of intersectional fields of study – from positive psychology, counselling, feminist and queer theories, to trauma theory and disability studies – inform an interdisciplinary framework for processing traumatic experiences and finding ways to hope. These narrative explorations are positioned as key to developing a sense of hope amongst the grieving and those supporting them. This text will benefit researchers, doctoral students, and academics in the fields of Higher Education, teacher education, trauma studies, and mental health education. Those interested in positive and educational psychology, as well as grief counselling in adults, will also enjoy this volume. Finally, this collection serves as a companion for those who find themselves grappling with losses, broadly defined.

This book provides ways of thinking about the teaching of writing in secondary schools (with applications to college writing) and shares research-based strategies for immediate use in the classroom. The strengths-based, classroom-tested, student-centered writing hope strategies shared within the Writing Hope Framework (WHF) are designed to allow students to work within their own unique writing processes and insert their individual writers'voices and styles authentically. The Writing Hope Framework allows students to choose which strategies and stages of the writing process they wish to engage in for purposeful writing goal attainment; it recognizes unique writing approaches and accounts for these differences in curricular design and implementation. Teachers can assess the writing abilities and self-beliefs of the students in their classes using a variety of strategies provided and then guide students in their pathways selection processes for writing.Given the nature of this research and its application, it is the intention of this book to bring readers through a process of hope that can facilitate life hope and writing hope in the classroom for and with students. Hope is not exclusively for the already hopeful students; it is also, and perhaps more critically, for those students who do not presently see hope in their lives but who can. Every student is capable of hope if it is facilitated effectively and purposefully.