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  • PROGRAMS
    • About the program
    • Instructional Practices
    • Classes
    • Professional Development
    • Summer camp
    • The RISE Series for You
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    • Free SEL Activities
  • Be-Hope App
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  • PROGRAMS
    • About the program
    • Instructional Practices
    • Classes
    • Professional Development
    • Summer camp
    • The RISE Series for You
    • Giving back Globally
    • Free SEL Activities
  • Be-Hope App
  • Team
  • Impact
  • Partners
  • Donate
  • Press
  • Contact

 Research shows that, across the world, youth and teachers 

cannot achieve their full potential in education and in life 

if their social and emotional needs are not met 

and if they social and emotional skills are not developed.

Transforming Lives in Houston, Texas and Beyond

In U.S. schools and community centers

  • Be the Peace - Be the Hope’s unique and sustainable research-based and evidence-based curriculum, aligned with CASEL and the TEKS, aims at improving well-being, academic performance and safety in schools. While meeting these goals, our engagement with teachers and students allow to:

 

  1. Improve learning and teaching by developing strong social and emotional competencies (Soft skills, 21st Century Skills): the students become aware of the emotions they have and values they bring, start to appreciate themselves and others and build character. They discover how to create equity while acknowledging the diversity and backgrounds in the schools we serve.   
  2. Increase resilience through mindfulness, healing arts and the development of coping skills allowing them to shift from lower states of the brain (survival and emotional) to a higher state (executive functions which include: filtering distractions, prioritizing tasks, setting and achieving goals, controlling impulses, developing empathy.)
  3. Improve safety while reducing destructive behavior: students transform negative behaviors into positive ways of meeting their needs through Non-Violent Communication (NVC), collaborative practices and creating stronger relationships.
  4. Foster community/civic engagement and leadership skills through student-led projects that improve the quality of life in the school and beyond.


  • All of these help improve the academic performance and wellbeing of students and their teachers.
  • Please see below some visuals about our unique curriculum process. 


  • This curriculum is protected by copyright but meant to be shared so if you are interested in knowing more about it please contact us.

Covid-19 - We stepped up at the schools to virtualize help for all our at-risk, low-income students

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Be the Peace - Be the Hope students in action

We are serving at-risk, low-income, minority students (including resettled immigrants and refugees) and teachers in schools & community centers across the Houston region (More than 30 schools including Blackshear, Emerson, Hartsfield, Las Americas Newcomer, Marshall Middle, Paul Revere Middle, Sugar Grove Academy, Sutton, Westside High, Wisdom, Yes Prep Northside).  Our program works in several phases with our primary phases being the Foundation SEL and Leadership & Community Development phases.

BTPBTH SEL Foundation Phase aligned with CASEL

Step 1: Self-Awareness, Self-Discovery , Understanding Emotions, Sense of Trust & Safety

OBJECTIVES

Allow students to create a safe space where they can express and understand emotions and power traits, and discover that they have more potential, aspirations, and resources than they sometimes think. 

THE CIRCLE OF TRUST, THE CLARITY TOOL, THE CYCLE OF AN EMOTION, PRACTICE EMOTIONS, THE CIRCLE OF COURAGE & BELONGING, THE TREE CREST & VISION BOARD: A safe and inclusive place where students can connect as a community, learn about emotions, neuro-science, coping skills, values, strengths & aspirations.

Step 2: Social Awareness, Interdependence / Interconnection, Building Relationships and Responsible Decision-making

OBJECTIVES

Develop an understanding that living systems are made up of interconnected relationships, in which each partner affects and often needs the other while addressing emotional intelligence and nonviolent communication, 

 A STORY OF NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION AND THE MAGIC BOARD:  these workshops highlight the needs behind our emotions and qualities/strategies to address these needs nonviolently.

Step 3: Overcoming the blocks & Building Resilience

OBJECTIVES

Find a place to express/share and deposit the worries/challenges and transform them into something more hopeful. Students learn how to channel their feelings of sadness, anger, or negativity into drawings and writing, share their challenges with others and reflect on them while feeling safe,

THE HEALING BOX AND HOPE STONES: Students love the healing box because it is the first time they are allowed to pour their emotions into artwork.

Step 4: Shared Values, Cooperation & Partnership

OBJECTIVES

Explore the potential role of cooperation and partnership in the participants’ everyday lives through art and STEM activities. 

CREATION OF THE TREE OF HOPE and THE LEGO HOUSE: Allows students to share collective values, strengths, and aspirations as well as develop organizational and leadership skills.
 

Step 5: SHARE AND CONNECT OUR STORIES

OBJECTIVES

 Take a time to develop reflecting practices and share what we have learned.

THE SWIRLS: Create art pieces that will be connected together to represent what we have learned individually and collectively.



Step 6: Spread Hope

OBJECTIVES

Cultivate awareness and global connection. Expand the youth's collective capacity for dialogue. Create positive change through simple actions. Activate compassionate forces. Fostering resilience and hope. 

MESSAGES OF HOPE:  Create messages of Hope on canvas that will be sent to children/youth in need locally or internationally.

BTPBTH Community & Leadership Development Phase

Community Building

Student driven, this phase requires active engagement with the school and community to discover areas of improvements and gain inspiration for projects.

Project Management

 Students learn skills such as interview techniques, mind-mapping, project management, leadership, team-building and implementation techniques. All five CASEL social and emotional competencies are required to make their chosen project become a reality.

Lasting Impact

  These opportunities allow students to create and implement projects that impact the school community and its environment. In the past, students have created sustainable projects including murals, with positive words gathered during the mind-mapping exercise, and translated in all the languages spoken in the school;  Mindfulness installations reinforcing the SEL dimension of the school culture; End of the year showcase, in which students delivered an inspirational speech and performances in front of the entire school.

We have many more workshops and activities to share

There's much to see within Be the Peace- Be the Hope. 

So, take your time, look around, and contact us as there is more to know about us. 

We hope you enjoy our site and take a moment to drop us a line.

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Bridges of Hope


The "Be the Peace - Be the Hope" program also invites the youth from our schools and community centers to share a spirit of hope, peace and mutual concern with the Greater Houston community (including nursing homes, hospitals) and children in refugee camps and orphanages. 


Delivered through the powerful medium of art created by children for children, these messages symbolize positive intentions for the future. By cultivating compassion, awareness, and global connection through simple actions, this program expands the youth's collective capacity for dialogue and for uniting forces in order to create the positive change they wish to see in the world, despite disparate situations. 

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