The Fostering Resilience Workbook: Strategies and Steps to Support Our Learners, Elementary Edition

Bring out the best in your students--and yourself.

In The Fostering Resilience Workbook, Elementary Edition, Kristin Van Marter Souers, Keith Orchard, and Pete Hall--a mental-health clinician, social worker, and veteran principal, respectively--draw on research and their extensive experience to help elementary-level educators create supportive, trauma-invested environments in which every student can succeed. Aligned with the bestselling Fostering Resilient Learners, this deeply practical workbook is organized into two parts.

Part 1 consists of proactive structures and practices that benefit all students. You'll learn how to - Determine your personal mission and maintain your own self-regulation. - Build a culture of safety. - Nurture positive relationships. - Recognize the effects of trauma and stress on the brain. - Identify and meet fundamental student needs. - Provide discipline and accountability with kindness and empathy.

Part 2 consists of responsive strategies and plans, organized into a proven problem-solving framework that will help you - Identify the skills and dispositions students need to succeed. - Recognize obstacles that interfere with student learning. - Explore your connection with students. - Pinpoint student skills in need of development. - Plan and track your intervention efforts. - Respond effectively when students aren't meeting expectations. - Access other professionals when you need extra support.

Throughout this book, the authors provide prompts for reflection, practical tools and templates, and effective ways to apply what you've learned to your setting. Many of these are collected in a downloadable, shareable resource.

Emphasizing kindness, belonging, and trauma-invested practice, this invaluable resource will inspire and guide you to be a more responsive teacher and help your students become more resilient, better adjusted, and more successful--in school, at home, and in life.

Kristin Van Marter Souers is a licensed mental-health clinician and has more than 30 years of experience teaching, coaching, training, and consulting in a multitude of settings. In addition to co-authoring The Fostering Resilience Workbook: Strategies and Steps to Support Our Learners, Elementary Edition with Keith Orchard and Pete Hall, she is the lead author (with Pete Hall) of two revolutionary, bestselling ASCD books on childhood trauma and stress: Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom and Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation: Trauma-Invested Practices for Fostering Resilient Learners. She is also the author of the first in a series of children's books to come: 10 Things Our Brains Need.

Keith Orchard is an experienced social worker and the current mental health facilitator in the Coeur d'Alene School District in Idaho. He has worked as a Peace Corps volunteer, educator, youth ranch coordinator, family counselor on a Marine Corps base, and sports coach. He is co-author, with Kristin Van Marter Souers and Pete Hall, of The Fostering Resilience Workbook: Strategies and Steps to Support Our Learners, Elementary Edition. Keith has worked alongside Kristin and Pete in providing professional development and coaching support to educators since 2018.

Pete Hall is an award-winning school principal and author or co-author of 12 books, including Fostering Resilient Learners and Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation with Kristin Van Marter Souers and his recent social psychology life guide, Always Strive to Be a Better You: How Ordinary People Can Live Extraordinary Lives. He is also co-author, with Kristin Van Marter Souers and Keith Orchard, of The Fostering Resilience Workbook: Strategies and Steps to Support Our Learners, Elementary Edition. He has worked in education for 30 years and provided professional development support to educators across the globe.