1. It is through hearing others’ stories and telling one’s own that it becomes clear that all stories, including those of students and their families, are really the human story.” (Benard, 2003, p. 133).

2. Percentage of Students
Schools are filled with children that have had to deal with adversity or have endured trauma and still manage to adapt and succeed in spite of the odds.
Think about your schools, what percentage of students do you think had to overcome trauma and yet were able to successfully bounce back?

3. MOST SUCCEED
MOST YOUNG PEOPLE WHO FACE SOME KIND OF RISK OR CHALLENGE, EARLY ON OR LATER IN THEIR CHILDHOOD, ACTUALLY DO SUCCEED. THEY SUCCEED IN SCHOOL AND IN LIFE. “Around 70% of young people in life’s most challenging conditions can overcome the odds.” (B. Bernard, personal communication, January 27, 2005).

4. Program 3 Sustaining Resiliency in Students
Reviews the characteristics of resiliency through profiles of several resilient students at the high school and elementary levels.
Learn about students struggles and how caring relationships teachers and peers, high expectations, opportunities for meaningful participation at their schools as well as specific curriculum and classroom strategies have helped them overcome obstacles in their life and build their resiliency.
Note the specific strengths of the 6 students profiled as you watch the video.

5. Reflection What strengths did you recognize as you watched the video?
All students/children have strengths…they just may not be the ones we witnessed on the video.

6. AREAS of STRENGTH
Individual strengths can be in one or more of these areas of development:
Intellectual/cognitive
Physical
Social
Emotional

7. Intellectual/cognitive—working at a job
Physical—skateboarding, videogames
Social—interacting with other students, teachers, and even administrators 
Emotional—taking care of younger siblings, adapting to frequent moves