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with children. We are convinced that our children will be stronger when we cultivate effective partnerships with families and communities that equip children with the skills to be more resourceful when dealing with the hardships that life may present. We have developed a framework that we will revisit throughout the book to give you a structure for understanding the capacities and related skills we want students to develop and for communicating with and supporting families in fostering resilience. The framework provides a map of five key resilience-promoting capacities and ways to foster those capacities as you go about your day-to-day teaching: 1. Developing supportive relationships 2. Forming positive self-identities 3. Supporting curiosity and motivation 4. Engaging in flexible thinking 5. Demonstrating altruism How to Navigate This Book This book is for educators like you who want to help their students thrive in our ever-evolving world, equipped to deal with the challenges life will inevitably bring. It is organized to help you weave resilience skill-building into the daily life of your classroom. Chapter 1 takes a deep dive into resilience. Each chapter that follows focuses on one of the five resilience-promoting capacities that help ensure that all children are able to thrive. Each chapter begins with a description of the capacity and key principles related to it. We then share actions that you can do in your classroom to help children develop that capacity. From there, we offer a section that details the negative outcomes a child might experience when he or she does not receive support or learn to respond to adversities and trauma. We also share how you can develop the capacity through your literacy instruction. We provide teacher-approved routines and activities for grades Kâ2 and 3â5 to help your students develop supportive relationships, form positive self-identities, build curiosity and motivation, engage in flexible thinking, and demonstrate altruism.
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