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Contemporary research and conceptual frameworks of resilience can be foundations for classroom interventions that contribute to students’ resilience. The classroom characteristics that make it possible for children to overcome adversity and experience success include rewarding and caring relationships between and among adults and children, practices that promote children’s autonomy and self-regulation, and factors that foster children’s optimism and hope. Deliberately embedding these protective factors into the fabric of everyday classroom practices increases the likelihood that children will learn and be successful in these classrooms even when struggling with significant social and economic disadvantages. Examples of intervention frameworks to strengthen classroom resilience are described: Resilient Classrooms, Restorative Peer Ecology, and happiness-promoting interventions. This chapter closes with a candid discussion of the next steps to develop and empirically evaluate practical strategies to create classroom environments that predispose students to success.
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Doll, B., Song, S.Y. (2023). Enhancing Resilience in Classrooms. In: Goldstein, S., Brooks, R.B. (eds) Handbook of Resilience in Children. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14728-9_28
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