Resilience Begins with Beliefs: Building on Student Strengths for Success in School (0)

About this book

As adults working in schools educators beliefs translate into messages actions and behaviors that can enhance or impede student success. This book affirms why beliefs are so important and why it is imperative to spend time focusing on reflecting upon and affecting educators beliefsespecially about students resilience. The author draws from her extensive experience in research policy and practice to present a wealth of information strategies and tools to help educators transfer current resilience theory and research into practice. Unfortunately educators are not always publicly supported financially rewarded or highly valued. Responding to these realities Resilience Begins with Beliefs is an effective resource to support the resilience of the teachers and administrators working in our schools as well as to facilitate any environment conducive to greater learning and life outcomes for all students. Book Features: Identifies concrete strategies for harnessing resilience in classrooms and schools. Encourages and promotes reader interaction with reflection questions in every chapter. Offers format suggestions for preservice and professional development programs. Provides many user-friendly features such as personal reflection ideas for facilitators and participants and a resilience-in-practice checklist.