Fostering Students with Skills and Tools Resilience Fostering Students with Skills and Tools ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyancy. the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity.

Resilience When the winds of change blow, some build walls. Others build windmills. Let us build windmills!

Resilience: the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity. ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyancy.

“Kids are not bad. Their behaviors may be bad “Kids are not bad. Their behaviors may be bad. But those behaviors are a response to the pain they feel from unmet needs and broken Circles. The behaviors were also learned. The environment in which a young person grows up determines what needs are met or go unmet and what coping skills they learn. Therefore it is not what is wrong with the child that we should be asking. Instead we should be asking what happened or didn’t happen. And then craft our interventions from there.”

SELF AWARENESS Cement Shoes: Staying True to Who You Are Stay Out of Oz: Remaining Grounded Amid Chaos When in Doubt, Shut Your Mouth and Take a Breath It Is NOT About You

Stepping Back and Standing Together What is the View from 10,000 feet? Identify what NEED the student behavior is expressing or trying to express Consider whether a basic need is NOT being met See the worth in each student and build from that strength (character trait) Students CANNOT learn if they do not feel SAFE The POWER of CONNECTIONS – our students are dying for it each day Work from a TEAM perspective – not my students but OURS Give students GRACE – accountable but mercy works too

RELATIONSHIPS Not Attachment or Pity Parties No One Said Relationship Is Easy The Power of Relationships Names, Labels, and the Need for Control Doors and Windows – Exploring All Options

BELIEF Forever Changed, NOT Forever Damaged It OK To Be Not Ok Don’t Let Fear Drive Your Bus

Above All: Self Care Your Health Love Yourself Your Own Relationships Competence as a Professional Gratitude

Christian Moore’s The Resilience Breakthrough 27 Tools or Boosters WhyTry.org Curriculum

The Resilience Breakthrough Christian Moore Why Try? FOUR KINDS OF RESILIENCE RELATIONAL RESOURCE STREET ROCKBOTTOM

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“And when these gifts form god act out with problematic behavior “And when these gifts form god act out with problematic behavior. When they are mean, aggressive, annoying, disruptive, inappropriate, disrespectful, etc. we must see these problems as opportunities. As teachable moments when we will build resilience in them.” “We must look at children in need, not as a problem but as individuals with potential..” -Desmund Tutu