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Reflections on Resilience

Sara Truebridge and Bonnie Benard


Resilience isn’t One person’s support can be crucial
Resilience begins Everyone, regardless of age or a program or in developing another’s resilience.
with beliefs. If you circumstances, has the capacity for curriculum. It’s You can say something to a student
believe in the capacity resilience. It just needs to be tapped. not a quick-fix or believe in that student in a way that
of all individuals to product that schools can buy. Resilience can change his or her life forever.
demonstrate resilience, The three major protective factors is more influenced by how a teacher
you won’t give up on that help us mitigate teaches than by what a teacher teaches. Challenging life experiences can
them. Your actions, words, adversity and nourish be opportunities for growth and
and behaviors will project personal strength are Resilient people identify themselves change. Our perseverance through
as survivors rather than victims. tough times can make us stronger.
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that message and will awaken and caring relationships,
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foster resilience in your students. high expectations, They acknowledge that life comes Truebridge’s session
and opportunities with challenges and setbacks, Most people make it despite from the 2013
Whole Child Virtual
Resilience is a process, to participate and which they can overcome. exposure to severe risk. Close to Conference at http://
not a trait. It involves contribute. 70 percent of youth from high-risk bcove.me/mb87diyw.

how we interact Resilience is not environments overcome adversity


and negotiate with Resilience isn’t just for people from just for remediation and achieve good outcomes.
ourselves, others, high-risk environments; affluent or intervention. It Source: From Werner, E., & Smith, R. (2001).
Journey from childhood to midlife: Risk, resilience,
and our world; how communities can be high-risk for some. incorporates a shift and recovery. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
we navigate through The stress incurred from family, peer, and from a problem-
the resources self-imposed pressures to perform and based deficit model
Sara Truebridge (resiliencest@gmail.com) is an education
that help us thrive; and how we move excel academically and socially contributes to a strengths- consultant on resilience who has collaborated on the
on a positive trajectory of success to an increase in high-risk behaviors based one. This documentary film Race to Nowhere (2009). She is the author
of the forthcoming book, Resilience: It Begins with Beliefs
and health in the midst of adversity, among youth in affluent communities. model of resilience is positive, (Teachers College Press). Bonnie Benard, a researcher in the
field of resilience and youth development, recently retired as
trauma, and everyday stress. protective, and preventive. a senior program associate at WestEd. She is the author of
Resiliency: What We Have Learned (WestEd, 2004).

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