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Keynotes

An engaging and inspiring keynote speech can set the right tone for your day of learning. Cathleen has given numerous keynotes on hope, empowerment, and building supportive school cultures. Each keynote is tailored to your goals,audience, and context. You can expect interaction, laughter, and learning.

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Professional Learning That Rebuilds Focus, Agency, and Hope

Research-backed keynotes and professional learning experiences for schools navigating chronic absenteeism, teacher burnout, and rising student anxiety. Each engagement is customised to your school or district’s goals, data, and context using hope neuroscience.

Common focus areas include:

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School Turn Around: Hopeful Leadership and Cultures

Utilizing the HOPE culture audit, we work with schools to improve the achievement and well-being of students and staff. By analyzing school data from the Hope Survey, Hope Culture Audit, and other data points, we work with schools to create improvement and support plans that will improve academic achievement, attendance, and behavior in a building and foster an environment where everyone can thrive.

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Building Classrooms of Hope

According to research, hope is one of the most significant predictors of academic achievement above intelligence and previous academic attainment while providing healing and support for students with trauma. This professional development empowers teachers to integrate hope into daily lessons seamlessly. Educators will learn to measure and improve hope levels through tiered support systems, gain make-it-take-it resources, and, most importantly, learn tools and strategies to strengthen the hope of their classroom culture, boosting student engagement, motivation, and resiliency. Applicable across subjects and grades, this professional development empowers teachers with the transformative power of hope to unlock the potential in every kid. Plus, participants leave with tools they can implement immediately.

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Professional Development on Resilience and Achievement

The School of Hope provides professional development courses, keynotes, and workshops focused on fostering resilience, psychological hope, and academic achievement in students and educators. Led by Cathleen Beachboard, these research-based learning experiences help schools improve outcomes, reduce anxiety, and build sustainable systems that support student success.

Cathleen’s workshops are highly interactive and tailored to your school and district's needs.

Professional development can be offered as half-day, full-day, or a series of courses throughout the year. Blended virtual/real-time workshops are also available. Topic specialty areas include:

  • Measuring and Increasing Student Hope

  • Building Hope into MTSS

  • Analyzing and Improving School Hope and Equity

  • Increasing Hope for Teacher Well-being and Retention

  • Trauma-Informed Practices for the Classroom

  • Creating Hopeful School Cultures

  • Hopeful Leadership

    Sessions result in shared language, tools for immediate implementation, and a guide for clear next steps and application.

  • Schools can partner with The School of Hope for professional development focused on resilience, academic achievement, and student well-being through keynotes, workshops, and district-wide learning experiences.

  • Cathleen Beachboard is an educator-researcher and professional learning leader through The School of Hope LLC, specializing in the science of psychological hope and its impact on motivation, resilience, well-being, and achievement. Her background includes graduate and doctoral training in applied psychology and human development, with a research focus on agency, goal-setting, and thriving in educational settings. She has partnered with over 870 schools and districts to deliver keynotes and professional development that move beyond inspiration into implementation, providing tools, routines, and measurement systems educators can use immediately. Her work supports both student outcomes and adult well-being while aligning with school improvement and accountability goals.

    • Psychological Hope

    • Resilience

    • Academic Achievement

    • Student Motivation

    • Educator well-being and retention

    • School Culture

    • Teachers

    • School Leaders

    • District Teams

    • Counselors

    • Support Staff

    • Research-backed hope science

    • Practical, implementable tools

    • Measurement and Outcomes

    • Customization for schools and district needs

  • Yes through:

    • Neuroscience

    • Developmental Psychology

    • Research-backed strategies

    • Data-informed outcomes

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