“…Though hope has been defined in a variety of ways across educational contexts, my research over the past seven years with secondary and postsecondary school students (and their teachers) has examined the development of writing skills through a hope theory that is defined in positive psychology as the will (motivation) and the ways (strategies) to accomplish future goals (Snyder, 2000). By conducting interviews, focus groups, classroom observations, surveys, and artifact analyses situated within English classrooms at the middle school, high school, and college levels, I have found that hope plays a significant role in building students' writing capabilities and positive affects towards writing and reading (Sieben, 2013(Sieben, , 2018. By examining my own teaching practices and interviewing secondary school ELA teachers who have engaged with this work over time, I have gained valuable insight about the role hope-focused strategies can play in ELA classrooms.…”