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Resilient
A Framework for Student Wellness Education in a PLC at Work®
If balancing academic demands with student wellness feels overwhelming, Resilient offers a path forward. Grounded in six key components, this guide provides a framework to help educators embed social-emotional growth into daily instruction. With practical tools and real-world strategies, it supports stronger teacher-student relationships, adult well-being, and a thriving school culture—without treating wellness as just one more thing to do.
Benefits
- Create responsive classrooms that encourage social, emotional, and academic growth
- Reflect on student feedback as opportunities to inform and improve teaching practice
- Integrate aspects of social-emotional growth and wellness into daily academic learning
- Build stronger rapports with students through honest assessment and feedback
- Encourage students’ continued growth through increasing levels of engaging challenge
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Create a Culture of Wellness
Chapter 2: Examine Student Voice
Chapter 3: Build Educator Capacity
Chapter 4: Design an Integrated Wellness Curriculum
Chapter 5: Provide Feedback and Assessment
Chapter 6: Analyze and Reflect
Chapter 7: Amplify and Expand
Epilogue: Responsive Classrooms
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1: Create a Culture of Wellness
- Diving In: Create a Culture of Wellness
- Four Critical Questions in the Student Wellness Education Framework
- Emotional Competency Reflection for Educators
Chapter 2: Examine Student Voice
- Figure 2.4: Student Reflection Form
- Diving In: Examine Student Voice
- Wellness Task Force Brainstorm
- Student Voice and Wellness Reflection
- Where Does Student Voice Live?
- Faculty Reflection on Examining Student Voice
Chapter 3: Build Educator Capacity
- Diving In: Build Educator Capacity
- Educator Capacity Definition Organizational Template
- Educator Evaluation Crosswalk Template
Chapter 4: Design an Integrated Wellness Curriculum
- Figure 4.7: Essential Skill Example
- Figure 4.8: Relationship Competency and Scaled Skills Example
- Diving In: Design an Integrated Wellness Curriculum
- SEL Worksheet
- SEL Scaled Learning Target Template
- Aligning the Essential Skills Worksheet
Chapter 5: Provide Feedback and Assessment
- Figure 5.1: Feedback Road Map
- Diving In: Provide Feedback and Assessment
- Practice Skill Feedback Template
- Examples of Where and When Students Receive Feedback
- Assessment-Planning Template
- Feedback Road Map
Chapter 6: Analyze and Reflect
- Figure 6.3: Student Self-Assessment and Goal-Setting Worksheet for Communication Skills
- Diving In: Analyze and Reflect
- Wellness Protocol Working Template
- Student Self-Assessment and Goal-Setting Worksheet for Communication Skills
Chapter 7: Amplify and Expand
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