Mountainview Elementary uses HOPE grant funds to run a Hope bootcamp for 5th graders

This year the Mountainview Elementary Hope team (Rhonda Hutton, Stacey de Wet, Hannah Alishio, Nicole Olden and Brittney Gonzales) used our Hope grant funds to run a Hope boot camp for seven of our 5th grade students. The Hope vision is that Hope can be taught. It is the belief that the future will be better than today and you have the power to make it happen. It combines three integral parts in order to have success: goal setting, pathways and willpower or agency.

These 5th graders then became Hope mentors to seven of our younger students. Through this opportunity both mentor and mentee went through a Hope course where they learned more about themselves, their ability to change and influence their path in life, and how to set goals. This of course was done with a whole lot of fun relationship-building activities thrown in the mix. Recently, our MV hope facilitator (Stacey de Wet) was interviewed by OSPI about this project. You can read more about it here: Investing in Hope Education to Support Pandemic Recovery | by The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Here are some recent quotes from both MV Hope mentors and Hope mentees:

“I think it showed us that nothing is impossible and it showed me how to understand hope and how to reach a goal. The videos of the people were really inspirational and showed me what people could do” 5th grade student mentor

“It taught us about Hope and that everything is possible. We saw people without Hope and how they worked to get it and then were able to lend it to someone else” 5th grade student mentor

“ ‘I don’t need easy, I just need possible’ - is one of the quotes we got from Hope bootcamp. It means it doesn’t have to be easy to reach your goal - it just needs to be possible. There’s a big difference between impossible and hard, but possible”. - 5th grade student mentor

“I feel like Hope teaches you about a different side of yourself that you might not know and it can help you figure out who you are and what you are meant to do”. - 4th grade student mentee

“Hope club was fun and it showed me new ways of doing things. The videos showed people learning to do things when they were disabled. They thought they couldn’t do things, but they found new ways to do what they wanted to do” - 4th grade student mentee

This year the Mountainview Elementary Hope team (Rhonda Hutton, Stacey de Wet, Hannah Alishio, Nicole Olden and Brittney Gonzales) used our Hope grant funds to run a Hope bootcamp for seven of our 5th grade students. The Hope vision is that Hope can be taught. It is the belief that the future will be better than today and you have the power to make it happen. It combines three integral parts in order to have success: goal setting, pathways and willpower or agency.

These 5th graders then became Hope mentors to seven of our younger students. Through this opportunity both mentor and mentee went through a Hope course where they learned more about themselves, their ability to change and influence their path in life, and how to set goals. This of course was done with a whole lot of fun relationship-building activities thrown in the mix. Recently, our MV hope facilitator (Stacey de Wet) was interviewed by OSPI about this project. You can read more about it here: Investing in Hope Education to Support Pandemic Recovery | by The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Here are some recent quotes from both MV Hope mentors and Hope mentees:

“I think it showed us that nothing is impossible and it showed me how to understand hope and how to reach a goal. The videos of the people were really inspirational and showed me what people could do” 5th grade student mentor

“It taught us about Hope and that everything is possible. We saw people without Hope and how they worked to get it and then were able to lend it to someone else” 5th grade student mentor

“ ‘I don’t need easy, I just need possible’ - is one of the quotes we got from Hope bootcamp. It means it doesn’t have to be easy to reach your goal - it just needs to be possible. There’s a big difference between impossible and hard, but possible”. - 5th grade student mentor

“I feel like Hope teaches you about a different side of yourself that you might not know and it can help you figure out who you are and what you are meant to do”. - 4th grade student mentee

“Hope club was fun and it showed me new ways of doing things. The videos showed people learning to do things when they were disabled. They thought they couldn’t do things, but they found new ways to do what they wanted to do” - 4th grade student mentee