Van Marter Souers

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.