Resiliency in Schools: Making It Happen for Students and Educators

"A beautifully written book which should be read by all administrators, teachers, and parents concerned with the future of their children."
Emmy E. Werner, University of California at Davis
Coauthor of Overcoming the Odds: High Risk Children from Birth to Adulthood

"A major contribution of Resiliency in Schools is its elegantly simple change process for instilling protective factors throughout the life of the school, [which] the authors describe and illustrate with the stories of schools they have worked with."
Bonnie Benard, Prevention consultant
Author of Fostering Resiliency in Kids: Protective Factors in the Family, School and Community

In this updated edition of Resiliency Education, Henderson and Milstein offer scores of new resources for resilience education as well as an action plan you can use right now to build inner strength and flexibility in your students and staff. The authors help you make sure everyone in your school develops the defenses needed to meet the dynamic, vigorous demands of school life.

You′ll learn:

• What resiliency is and why it is so important
• Schoolwide strategies to move students from "at risk" to resilient
• How to integrate resiliency building with educational reform
• How to adopt resiliency as the fourth "r" of your educational goals
• Why resilient students need resilient educators
• How to assess your starting point and increase your own resiliency
• How to chart your progress as you make resiliency a way of life for yourself and your school
• Skills and tools for resiliency building

Mike M. Milstein is a partner in The Resiliency Group, Ltd., and Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership at the University of New Mexico. His professional career also includes being Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Buffalo and a classroom teacher. His teaching, research, and writing interests are in the areas of resiliency and organiza­tional change and development. He has been actively engaged in school and community resiliency development efforts in such places as Nelson, New Zealand, Ashland, Oregon; Battle Creek, Michigan; and Shelby County, Tennessee. The resil­iency initiatives he has facilitated include classroom instruction and cur­riculum improvement efforts, school wide activities that enhance the resil­iency of educators, and school-community partnerships that support resiliency development for both children and adults. He has written 11 books, including coauthoring Resiliency in Schools (2002; 1996).