Resilience-building schools for at-risk youth

"The goal of this book is to convince overburdened school leaders and educators of the value of shifting toward a resilience-based approach, which cultivate the broad social, emotional, and motivational foundations of academic success in simple and low-cost ways. The book will demonstrate how this approach dovetails with research conclusions from the fields of education, psychology, and public health regarding the conditions that effectively bring about individuals' achievement, well-being, and positive development. It will also detail the common-sense simplicity (and affordability!) of the resilience-building approach and show how effective such an approach can be in helping at-risk students succeed" (page xiii).