Hope4Education’s Services

Mission and Vision

Our mission is to connect concepts with Content and the Community.

We engage each person in going forth to share experiences, knowledge, and understandings.  

Hope4Education.com is the educational component built by Dr. Hope Blecher Croney’s 40-year educational career.

Hope’s credentials include multiple earned college degrees from accredited institutions and multiple NJDOE-issued permanent certifications.

Hope provides professional development workshops on location and virtually.

For over 20 years, Hope’s work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and newspapers.

Due to her creativity and curriculum work, Hope has received numerous grants and brought new programs into schools and communities.

What We Can Do For You:

  • Provide professional development for administrators and educational staff.

  • Provide workshops for parents and caregivers.

  • Mentor and coach educators.

  • Guide development of cross curricular programming.

  • Support your grant driven programs for ELLs/ENLs and underserved populations.

  • Facilitate year-long planning of programs from September 11th commemorations to the 100th Day of School to Read Across America Day to Graduation Day.

  • Infuse character education across content areas.​

  • Consulting services, including getting to know you and your needs, written quote with plan of action, and follow up options.

DR. HOPE BLECHER’s Credentials:

She has been a working professional in the field of education for 40 years. She holds an earned Ed.D., an MA and a BA, in addition to three NJDOE issued standard teaching certifications and two administrative certifications. Recently, she was asked to be the first Senior Advisor for ReadM, an educational app. Other firsts include serving as the English Language Learner Specialist at SUNY Sullivan County Community College and being a Literacy Coach for a school district in Central New Jersey. She served as an English as a Second Language, ESL, service provider for an adult education program in NJ. Previously, Hope served as the first Middle School Curriculum Coordinator for an independent school, and as the Director of Curriculum and Instruction, and the Supervisor of English Language Arts Literacy, Social Studies and Library/Media Services. Along with friends, neighbors and colleagues, Hope co-authors educational books and articles. You can see more at Hope Blecher (Sass), Ed.D., MA, BA | LinkedIn

Testimonials

From Teachers

Hope Blecher was a guest speaker at our elementary school and shared great insight and expertise! She was prepared, informative, energetic, and kind. She was able to speak to our young students in a manner that was engaging and easy to understand. Highly recommend working with her! Angela S.

  • Excellent collegiality!

  • Superb preparation and presentation!

  • Excellent examples and varied activities!

  • So happy with the outcome😊 I love when new ideas take hold‼️ K. Poppo, Culinary Arts Educator

  • It was a REALLY great workshop. I got a ton of ideas and you got my juices flowing. Thank you! MV

  • This was an excellent workshop-well planned and fun.

  • Organized and informative-You really have your act together!

  • The workshop really clarified the types of effective practices.

  • Practical to my needs and interests with useful visuals and handouts.

  • It's nice to have a coach who is both knowledgeable and accessible.

  • I can use these strategies with my students beginning tomorrow-that's the best.

  • It was great to have this explained rather than "read this book and do it by tomorrow".

From Administrators

  • WOW!!!! Hope- thank you so much! It was great yesterday!

  • Excellent workshop!

  • You are a great fit to our building.

  • A+-well organized, showed in depth planning and enjoyable.

  • You have made such a positive impact on our school. Thank you!

  • They did a great job imparting their knowledge of effective practices.

  • Meeting with Hope has been very informative and helped us to see where we are going.

  • Interesting, well-rehearsed with smooth delivery that holds the audience's attention.

  • Thank you for addressing the standards. It truly tied the staff as a collective unit.

Enjoy Engage Educate Explore

Through enjoying the learning experience, you will engage in education and be invigorated to explore further, for yourself, your staff and your students.

We infuse Creativity, Curiosity, and Community. These three Cs are circular and one weaves into the next.

Logo: Our Hope4Education logo represents the colors of our planet. We are interdisciplinary, energetic, and creative. It is our snapshot as we continue to imagine, create, and facilitate. We strive for you to embrace your ah-ha moment during our programs, presentations, and webinars.

Disclaimer: As an educator and professional development provider our discussions may touch upon a multitude of topics. I can not guarantee that the results of the workshops, PD and/or webinars or other services provided will result in any awards or specific evaluation scores.