Resiliency in Schools: Making It Happen for Students and Educators

Foreword by Emmy E. Werner

This updated edition offers scores of new resources for resilience education as well as an action plan that can be used immediately to build inner strength and flexibility in your students and staff.

This text is designed to help students, teachers, administrators, and others in the school community to become more skilled at encouraging resiliency in themselves and others, to be able to bounce back from stress, trauma, and risk in their lives. Coverage includes what resiliency building looks like for students, for educators, and in schools as organizations; examples of how schools can change to become better resiliency builders; and specific tools educators can use for resiliency building in their schools. Changes in the revised edition are not specified. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Mike M. Milstein is a partner in The Resiliency Group, Ltd., and Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership at the University of New Mexico. His professional career also includes being Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Buffalo and a classroom teacher. His teaching, research, and writing interests are in the areas of resiliency and organiza-tional change and development. He has been actively engaged in school and community resiliency development efforts in such places as Nelson, New Zealand, Ashland, Oregon; Battle Creek, Michigan; and Shelby County, Tennessee. The resil-iency initiatives he has facilitated include classroom instruction and cur-riculum improvement efforts, school wide activities that enhance the resil-iency of educators, and school-community partnerships that support resiliency development for both children and adults. He has written 11 books, including coauthoring Resiliency in Schools (2002; 1996).