Building Student Resilience, K-8: Strategies to Overcome Risk and Adversity

Proven strategies for helping students rebound from risk

An experienced teacher and principal of a Title I school, Gabe Simon provides classroom practitioners, support team specialists, and all levels of schools leaders with numerous strategies for forging strong relationships and providing scaffolded supports to help students rebound from risk. Included are:

• Compelling descriptions of research on the link between resiliency and academic achievement
• The most important steps educators can take to build students' resiliency
• Game plans for creating caring school-wide teams and classroom structures that engage students
• Comments and perspectives from students considered to be at risk