Building Student Resilience, K-8: Strategies to Overcome Risk and Adversity

Building Student Resilience, K-8 presents strategies and solutions that can easily be implemented in the school and classroom to improve engagement and teacher-student and administrator-student relationships. By using these strategies and understanding how these relationships affect performance, teachers can help students learn at a higher level regardless of risk factors. This book provides a detailed and comprehensive treatment of resiliency and working with at-risk students. Readers will learn about the power of establishing caring connected relationships between adults and students in schools across our country. You will also discover how increasing student engagement can propel students' academics quickly upward as achievement gaps are vastly narrowed and student learning greatly improves.