ARTICLE: Resilience-Friendly Classrooms
Six definitive steps educators can take to create classrooms that foster resiliency in students, distilled from research and the experiences of many teachers.
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Building a Classroom That’s Resilience-Friendly
By Debbie Silver
We know that the experiences and emotional baggage many of our students shoulder daily can impede their ability to envision a different kind of life now or in the future.
No matter what their background or status may be, as they progress through adolescence, they will find themselves facing the fact that life is uncertain.
That’s the sad news. The good news is that students can learn how to pick up the pieces and go on after they face adversity, disappointment, loss, or trauma. They need our guidance to find healthy ways to move forward despite their doubts and fears.
How do we do that? Here are six definitive steps educators can take to create classrooms that foster resiliency in students, distilled from research, my own experience, and the experiences of so many teachers and other education leaders I’ve worked with.