A Collection of Blogs, Thoughts and Ideas
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It’s always personal: Transformational Resiliency in Action-Reflect-Persevere! I don’t remember consciously focusing on my personal resilience as a young child, yet, as I take a moment to reflect on some of the circumstances that are the collective of my now distant memories, I find myself remembering many moments that provide for my current awareness of…
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“Building the Resiliency of At-Risk Students” This last year I was honored to be asked to participate in a Post-Graduate Fellowship Program. A strategic partnership was formed with Drexel University and the California School Board Association (CSBA), and I worked with the CSBA Leaders over the last year to support changes to the education and…
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@Resiliency #Resiliency You matter! You make a difference! You bring the world to those you love! You are an essential person! Never underestimate this! You matter! Is it hard to believe that you make a difference? Is it difficult to accept the idea that as a unique person your impact on the world should not…
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Each person is the most important person in the world! It is personal: Building relationships is absolutely a personal endeavor, and builds resiliency skills in others! It’s life, it’s personal, It’s about relationships, it’s so important! Life is messy, we are not perfect, yet we are human, which makes us persons, which means that everything…
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As a lifelong educator, researcher on resiliency development, empowerer of humans, and believer in the power of resiliency, I sugest that when we speak of “Grit” we must consider that it is our collective responsibility to strive at all levels of our educational communities to provide environments for students that are calm, supportive, encouraging, thoughtful,…
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Grow in Peace Each moment that we are afforded an opportunity to educate, coach, raise, support, and build relationships with children, presents opportunties for us to support them in growing, developing, and becoming well-functioning individuals. As adults we collectively take on this responsibility not only to personnaly receive the benefits of providing service to children,…
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How will your chapter read? What will they write about you? What emotions will come of your memory? We often think of ourselves as the protagonist in our own stories, yet, more importantly we might want to consider how we might be described in the stories that our loved ones, friends, acquaintances and even strangers…
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I define Transformational Resiliency as the following: The growth, development and strengthening of a child’s personal resiliency as a result of providing an engaging, positive, thoughtful, supportive, educational environment. This blog is intended to provide an avenue to share ideas, concepts, approaches, and thoughtful considerations to do just that. I believe that the ownership of…
Recipes For Resilience 