1. A Brain-Based Approach to Building Resilience
Elyse Pratt-Ronco, PhD
University of Maine at Farmington

2. Choose a button that represents your mood or attitude today.
(Put it on).

4. What Makes Your Students Resilient?

5. What Makes You Resilient?

6. What DO You Wish your Students Had More of To Make them Resilient?

7. Why are we talking about resilience building now?
Why Now?
Why are we talking about resilience building now?

8. What Makes Your Students Resilient?

9. Use or Adapt?

10. RESILIENCE

11. “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.”
-Mexican Proverb

12. Chronic Stressors Live Here!”
What is Going On?
“Caution!
Chronic Stressors Live Here!”

17. In the Classroom. . . Fight Flight Freeze Acting out
Behaving aggressively
Acting silly
Exhibiting defiance
Being hyperactive
Arguing
Screaming/yelling
Withdrawing
Fleeing the classroom
Skipping class
Daydreaming
Seeming to sleep
Avoiding others
Hiding or wandering
Becoming disengaged
Exhibiting numbness
Refusing to answer
Refusing to get needs met
Giving a blank look
Feeling unable to move or act

18. Genetics vs. Epigenetics

19. Rats, and Cats, and Frogs, Oh My!

21. Strengthening Executive Functioning

22. Use or Adapt?

23. Bag of Nouns Round 1- Description Round 2- Charades
Round 3-One word clue

24. Use or Adapt?

25. The Wise Choice Process
What is your current situation?
How would you like it to be?
Do you have a choice? Yes, always yes.
What are your options?
What are the likely outcomes of each option?
Which are you willing to Commit to?
And we can use the Wise Choice Proess
Teach and practice with a neighbor. 20 minutes.
(Glasser, 1998)

26. Elyse Pratt-Ronco, Ph.D. elyse.pratt@maine.edu
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Elyse Pratt-Ronco, Ph.D.