How to Build Resilience in Your Classrooms and Increase Student Agency and Well-Being

How to Build Resilience in Your Classrooms and

Increase Student Agency and Well-Being

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Dr. Beth Doll & John Lestino

Dr. Doll and Mr. Lestino will describe use of the ClassMaps Surveys in consultation with teachers and support staff to increase school-based positive mental-health behaviors. In particular, school mental health professionals can use ClassMaps to work in partnerships to strengthen the teacher/staff relationships and support for self-agency within classrooms. The ClassMaps Surveys are central to these partnerships; the surveys provide brief, simple, and easily administered assessments of the six resilience characteristics and can identify which resilience characteristics should be targeted to improve positive classroom behaviors; re-administration of the surveys can evaluate whether strategies to enhance these had been effective. In their simplest use, students in a class complete the anonymous surveys about their experiences in the classroom. Graphs describing survey results are shared with all students in a classroom meeting. Students and their teachers can then discuss the survey results. For example…” Is this that a really true? Why do you think this happens in our class? Is this how we want our class to be? What are some things that we could do to make the class even better?” Participants in today’s program will be given access to ‘five brief’ how to do videos that describe a simple strategy to collect and draft the results, recommendations for structuring a classroom meeting, and additional resources for using ClassMaps consultation..

Objectives:

1. Attendees will be able to administer the anonymous ClassMaps Surveys to students in a class
2. Attendees will be able to create graphs representing the survey results
3. Attendees will be able to use the graphed results to engage students and their teachers in a classroom meeting to collectively plan changes to improve the classroom experience.

NASP Domain:

Domain 1-Data-Based Decision Making

Domain 2-Consultation and Collaboration

Domain 9-Research and Evidence-Based Practice