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The Resilience Framework We rely on a framework for thinking about resilience-promoting skills based on the ongoing research and experience of the Yale Child Study Center-Scholastic Collaborative for Child & Family Resilience. The Resilience Framework identifies the core capacities that support resilience and help move a child’s fulcrum. The framework also offers specific skills and literacy strategies that help develop those capacities in children. The framework is, in essence, a map of important resilience-promoting capacities to observe in your students and to provide practical ways to foster those skills as you go about your day-to-day teaching: (1) developing supportive relationships; (2) forming positive self-identities; (3) building curiosity and motivation; (4) engaging flexible thinking; and (5) demonstrating altruism.
Developing Strong Relationships
Forming Positive Self-Identities
Building Curiosity and Motivation
Engaging in Flexible Thinking
Demonstrating Altruism
Act for the benefit of your family, friends, and community.
Welcome new information and ideas and think creatively.
Be curious about the world around you and motivated to learn.
Have a strong sense of who you are and develop confidence.
Form strong connections
with people who can support you.
To think about how these capacities come into play to foster resilience, let’s focus on a particular child. Think of a student who has come to you facing many challenges, whom you’ve wanted desperately to help—one of the many children whom you recognize has potential and you think about even after the workday ends. Here, we’ll talk about a child named Hendrix.
24 The Educator’s Guide to Building Child & Family Resilience
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