Fostering Resilient Learners
This is the 2016 online version of Fostering Resilient Learners, which helps cultivate a trauma-sensitive learning environment for students across all content areas, grade levels, and educational settings.
Learning & Instruction
Equity, Justice and Emotional Intelligence
Antiracism is an active stance to deconstruct the internal, relational, and systemic structures that prevent us from having true equity in the world. Emotional intelligence can play a role in the “inner work” toward a just society. This website provides information, resources and videos about how emotional intelligence plays a role in this work.
Essentials for Childhood Framework and Resources
Essentials for Childhood famework proposes strategies and resources communities can consider to promote the types of relationships and environments that help children grow up to be healthy and productive citizens so that they, in turn, can build stronger and safer families and communities for their children.
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Every Student Matters: Cultivating Belonging in the Classroom
These five strategies can help ensure that students feel they belong in your classroom.
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Evidence Based Practices for Equity in Schools
Website to help schools in their equity by providing a broad range of services — research and evaluation, professional learning, technical assistance, and policy guidance — that are tailored to the needs of our clients. A nonpartisan partner, WestEd generates knowledge and apply evidence and expertise to improve policies, systems, and practices.
Exposure in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
This video, which is part of the Center for Childhood Resilience’s CBT course, provides an overview of using exposure in the treatment with youth with anxiety.
District 186 opens new peace rooms in three high schools
News story about Springfield IL schools using peace rooms in high schools to ensure students have a safe space to talk about what they’re going through.
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Doll Test : the Effects of Racism on Children
The “doll test” is a psychological experiment designed in the 1940s in the USA to test the degree of marginalization felt by African American children caused by prejudice, discrimination and racial segregation. Given the considerable increase of the phenomenon of migration in Europe in recent years the filmmakers decided to re-create the test with Italian children in 2016.
Educator Wellness Webinars
This 4-session recorded webinar series includes handouts and resources on educator well-being and to support educators tap into their resiliency skills, increase self-compassion, create self-care routines, build a practice of gratitude and appreciation and celebrate – even those small successes – to support wellbeing.