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Social & Emotional Learning Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) Forum 2017: (SEL) Forum 2017:

Raising Resilient Kids Raising Resilient Kids Raising Resilient Kids Raising Resilient Kids

This is a partial slide show from the interactive workshops held This is a partial slide show from the interactive workshops held for parents and guardians on April 3 and 5, 2017. for parents and guardians on April 3 and 5, 2017.

Overall flow this evening Overall flow this evening

• What resiliency is & isn’t

What resiliency is & isn’t

• Resiliency competency areas and protective factors

Resiliency competency areas and protective factors

• School stories

School stories

• What students reported on climate surveys

What students reported on climate surveys

• What students reported on climate surveys

What students reported on climate surveys

• Four useful skills to foster resiliency at home

Four useful skills to foster resiliency at home

• More school stories

More school stories

• Home scenarios

Home scenarios

• Q & A

Q & A

• Closing

Closing

Resilience isn’t… Resilience isn’t… Resilience isn’t just surviving Resilience isn’t just surviving – it’s thriving it’s thriving – it’s thriving it’s thriving

Resiliency also isn’t… Resiliency also isn’t…

Resilience isn’t necessarily Resilience isn’t necessarily compliance compliance Turn Turn-& &-talk talk– – think of think of compliant behavior that compliant behavior that demonstrated demonstrated lack of lack of resilience resilience

And, resilience isn’t… And, resilience isn’t…

“Be more resilient” “Be more resilient” isn’t the isn’t the solution to enormous solution to enormous burdens and stress burdens and stress burdens and stress burdens and stress

Resilience is… Resilience is…

Innate human capacity Innate human capacity - attitudes attitudes and and skills skills… … developing throughout life developing throughout life… … bolstered by environmental factors bolstered by environmental factors… … to overcome obstacles and grow. to overcome obstacles and grow. to overcome obstacles and grow. to overcome obstacles and grow. “Each of us, through our everyday efforts to be “Each of us, through our everyday efforts to be whole people, needs and develops resilience. This whole people, needs and develops resilience. This process includes process includes… …how each one of us accesses how each one of us accesses

• ur own capacity to embrace opportunities
• ur own capacity to embrace opportunities – not

not just solve problems just solve problems – we encounter every day.” we encounter every day.”

(Poliner Poliner & Benson, & Benson, Teaching the Whole Teen Teaching the Whole Teen)

Fostering a resilient self Fostering a resilient self-identity identity

“Identity “Identity is the embodiment of self is the embodiment of self-

• understanding. We are who we understand
• understanding. We are who we understand
• urselves to be, as that understanding is
• urselves to be, as that understanding is

shaped and lived out in everyday shaped and lived out in everyday shaped and lived out in everyday shaped and lived out in everyday experience experience.” .”

Nakkula Nakkula in in Sadowski Sadowski, , Adolescents At School Adolescents At School

School Stories School Stories

• Listening & diffusing

Listening & diffusing

• Appreciative coaching

Appreciative coaching

• Appreciative coaching

Appreciative coaching

• Scaffolding questions

Scaffolding questions

• Asset

Asset-based feedback based feedback

Think of a situation at home Think of a situation at home

Try applying one of these skills Try applying one of these skills

• Listening & diffusing

Listening & diffusing

• Appreciative coaching

Appreciative coaching

• Appreciative coaching

Appreciative coaching

• Scaffolding questions

Scaffolding questions

• Asset

Asset-

• based

based feedback feedback Turn & talk to share Turn & talk to share