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Chapter 1Building the Foundation: A Structured Generator of Hope for More Joyful and Just Schools

A Structured Generator of Hope

We begin with building a structure that allows us to create more joyful and just communities that we belong to, that we are in partnership with—whether they be young people or adults. This is our radical hope work. How can hope be radical? Let me explain what I mean.

Recently, I was invited to participate in a year‐long excavation and reflection for white people to develop racial reckoning with their ancestral past and present, specifically the harm in which their ancestors spread amongst Black, Indigenous, and ...

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