New Edition of Best Seller!

"A beautifully written book which should be read by all administrators, teachers, and parents concerned with the future of their children."
Emmy E. Werner, University of California at Davis
Coauthor of Overcoming the Odds: High-Risk Children From Birth to Adulthood

"A major contribution of Resiliency in Schools is its elegantly simple change process for instilling protective factors throughout the life of the school, [which] the authors describe and illustrate with the stories of schools they have worked with."
Bonnie Benard, Prevention Consultant
Author of Fostering Resiliency in Kids: Protective Factors in the Family, School, and Community

In this updated edition of Resiliency in Schools, Nan Henderson and Mike M. Milstein offer scores of new resources for resilience education as well as an action plan you can use right now to build inner strength and flexibility in your students and staff. The authors help you make sure everyone in your school develops the defenses needed to meet the dynamic, vigorous demands of school life.

You'll learn:

• What resiliency is and why it is so important
• Schoolwide strategies to move students from "at risk" to resilient
• How to integrate resiliency building with educational reform
• How to adopt resiliency as the fourth "r" of your educational goals
• Why resilient students need resilient educators
• How to assess your starting point and increase your own resiliency
• How to chart your progress as you make resiliency a way of life for yourself and your school
• Skills and tools for resiliency building

Based on key findings from literature and the author's own experience, this book is designed to help principals and other administrators improve schools. The authors guide the reader through developing a collective vision, providing professional development, involving stakeholders in decision-making, and building support for change. Each chapter examines a different aspect of the school change process.

This easy-to-read guide helps school administrators decide if they have the necessary resources and commitment to make restructuring happen. Using his own extensive experience, the author explains the phases of diagnosis and the processes of change involved as well as offering the strategies needed to facilitate reform.

In this updated edition ofaLeadership for Resilient Schools and Communities, resiliency experts Mike M. Milstein and Doris Annie Henry build on their groundbreaking strategies used in districts across the country and offer newainformation onaleadership resiliency.aPacked withagraphic organizers and tools, and providing a resource guide, this is an invaluable reference for school leaders serious about resiliency efforts.

Educational practitioners in America have become disillusioned with university preparation programmes that fail to prepare them for the realities of the workplace. This volume summarizes the knowledge gained from five of the programmes instigated by the Danforth Foundation in its efforts to stimulate new approaches to the training of educational leaders. The ramifications of what has been learned is discussed and an analysis of future issues for American schools is provided.

Based on key findings from literature and the author's own experience, this book is designed to help principals and other administrators improve schools. The authors guide the reader through developing a collective vision, providing professional development, involving stakeholders in decision-making, and building support for change. Each chapter examines a different aspect of the school change process.