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"All administrators and teacher leaders need to study Krovetz's volume on how excellent schools with caring, collaborative, and challenging cultures build self-efficacy and resilience in students with diverse abilities and social backgrounds."
—James R. Bean, Professor of Leadership Studies
Lock Haven University
Give students the care and support they need to build a successful future!
This must-have handbook for education leaders illustrates the power of resiliency in the lives of students striving to succeed in school and life. Practical and reader-friendly, the text presents four elements that characterize resilient learning communities: care for students, high expectations, substantive support, and participation.
The second edition of Fostering Resiliency features an added case study, revisits schools from the first edition, and describes how some schools stayed on track, how others fell away and then recovered, and how others are struggling to come back. School leaders will also find:
Sample questionnaires, strategies, and tools for self-evaluation
A list of critical elements for curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices
Important considerations for teacher and administrator roles
This powerful book illustrates how significant student achievement is possible despite socioeconomic disadvantages and how participants at every level can cultivate transformative systemic change.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Whatever Happened to That Old Gang of Mine?
Definitions
Whatever Happened to That Old Gang of Theirs?
Moving From Risk to Resilience
What Is This Resilience Stuff?
Does the Presence of These Protective Factors Relate to Student Learning?
Where Do We Go From Here?
Case Study: Anzar High School
2. Prerequisites: First Things First
First Things First: The Head
The Right Leg: Collegiality
The Left Leg: Professionalism
The Arms: Managing and Leading Change
The Heart: Resilience
Case Study: Oak Grove School District
3. What's in It for Me?
Collegiality
Intellectual Stimulation
Voice
Respect
Increased Job Satisfaction
Shared Ownership and Leadership
Obstacles
What Does It Look Like?
Why Me?
What Do I Do First?
Will There Be Public Schools in the Twenty-First Century?
Case Study: Two Oak Grove Schools
4. I Care, You Care, We All Care - But How Do Students Know?
What Would a School Look Like Whose Culture Is Centered on Caring?
What Would Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Be Like in a School That Is Centered on Caring?
What Do Teacher and Administrator Roles Look Like in a School Focused on Caring?
Case Study: Rosemary School and Cezar Chavez School
5. Providing High Expectations and Purposeful Support
Taking the Easy Way Out
High Expectations: Focus on Literacy
High Expectations: Habits of Mind
What Gets in the Way?
What Else Gets in the Way?
High Expectations Mean Believing That All Students Are Capable of Using Their Minds and Hearts Well
Purposeful Support
What Would a School Look Like Whose Culture Is Centered on High Expectations and Purposeful Support?
What Would Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Be Like in a School That Is Designed to Foster High Expectations and Purposeful Support for All Students?
What Do Teacher and Administrator Roles Look Like in Such a School?
Once Again, Does It Matter Which School a Child Attends?
Case Study: Alum Rock Small Schools of Choice
6. I Value Your Participation: Now Sit Down and Shut Up
Participation as the Third Protective Factor
What Would a School Look Like Whose Culture Is Centered on Meaningful Participation by All Students?
What Would Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Be Like in a School That Is Designed to Foster Meaningful Participation by All Students?
More Details on Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
What Do Teacher and Administrator Roles Look Like in Such a School?
Case Study: Homestead High School
7. Managing Change: On Your Mark, Get Set, Are You Ready to Go?
What We Do Know About Change
What We Can Do With What We Know
The Section You've All Been Waiting for: What About All the Resistance?
A Final Word
Case Study: Mission Hill Middle School
8. Marty Krovetz's Top 10 List of Commonly Asked Questions About Resilience
Question 10: Our staff is very congenial, and we are known for how caring we are with students. Aren't we doing resilience already?
Question 9: How can what happens in my classroom or in my school overcome the problems my students encounter outside of school?
Question 8: What is the role of the district office in fostering resilience?
Question 7: How do we coach our principal so that she sees the building of a resilient learning community as a priority?
Question 6: How can we create change in individual teachers about attitudes and expectations towards certain groups of students such as Title l, English Language Learning, migrant, special education?
Question 5: How do you get a mature staff that has a history of mistrust and private practice to talk with each other about fostering resilience?
Question 4: How will we know we are succeeding in fostering resilience? What measures would we use? Who would we use them with? When would we use them?
Question 3: Should we teach students about resilience and help them understand how to foster resilience in themselves?
Question 2: Given the pressure of NCLB, how do we find time and resources to foster resilience?
Question l: I am exhausted. How do I foster resilience for myself?
9. A Final Word or Two
Resources
References
Index
