The Educator's Guide to Building Child & Family Resilience

Description

A teacher-educator and pediatrician team up to offer practical techniques that help students deal with the many life challenges they face. The authors show how to build resilience-promoting skills through quality children's literature, routines, and activities to create a classroom where all children thrive. As children develop those skills, they connect more deeply with peers, teachers, families, and community members-and build key reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.

About the Author

Michele Myers, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University. As a holistic, social justice educator, Dr. Myers is committed to ensuring that all children receive a humanizing education that honors their histories, heritages, literacies, languages, cultures, family structures, and communities as assets for learning. Dr. Myers recently coauthored Revolutionary Love (Scholastic, 2020) with Kamania Wynter-Hoyt, Eliza Braden, Sanjuana Rodriguez, and Natasha Thornton.

Linda Mayes, M.D. is a developmental pediatrician in the Yale School of Medicine where she leads the Yale Child Study Center. Her scholarly work focuses on the impact of early adversity on children's development and on building programs to support skill development promoting resilience. An author of numerous scholarly articles, Mayes is also the author of The Educator’s Guide to Understanding Child Development (Scholastic, 2020).