SY036: Addressing Challenges to Building Resilience in Schools in Marginalized Communities

Wednesday, February 14, 2024
2:30 PM–3:50 PM CST

  • PMD: 5,8
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. identify strategies for promoting resilience in specific student populations (e.g., rural, African American, Latin American, tribal communities).
  2. explain foundational tenets of current literature on resilience.
  3. understand the implications and potential harm of haphazard or “one size fits all” approaches to fostering resilience.

Description

This symposium offers practical strategies for building resilience in historically marginalized student populations and schools. The research findings reviewed are tied to practical strategies attendees can use in their work.

Presenter(s)

Erin Harper, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Tara C. Raines, UNLV
Celeste M. Malone, PhD, Howard University
Anton Robert Berzins, Great Neck Public Schools
Mark Pommer, University of California, Berkeley

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