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Conclusion
How might our schools and society be Hope Scale (CHS) not only can
affected if school leaders and teachers determine the degree of hope reported
were committed to creating hopeful by elementary, middle, and high school
students? In other words, what students (Lopez, Snyder, & Pedrotti,
benefits might occur if communities, 2003), but also can reveal the
schools, leaders, and teachers paid hopelessness expressed by various
more attention to helping students set racial and ethnic groups, including
goals, become motivated to reach Mexican-American (Edwards, Ong, &
these goals, and possess the means for Lopez, 2007) and African-American
overcoming adversity? One approach youth (Valle, Huebner, & Suldo, 2006).
would be to determine how the
curriculum is affecting 21st century Using an instrument to assess hope
learning outcomes, especially does not reveal the underlying reasons
students??adaptability, self-direction, for or consequences of hopelessness.
accountability, and responsibility Therefore, the real benefits of
(Partnership for 21st Century Skills, increasing our students??sense of hope
n.d.). Another way is to measure the will be evident in their social and
degree to which students are emotional actions. Tangible evidence
becoming more hopeful about their life that schools are successfully
chances. Administering the Children? implementing the programs and,
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