 Resilient Classrooms: Creating Healthy Environments for Learningreviewed by Kristien Zenkov - 2005  Title: Resilient Classrooms: Creating Healthy Environments for LearningAuthor(s): Beth Doll, Steven Zucker, Katherine Brehm Publisher: Guilford Press, New York ISBN: 1593850018, Pages: 165, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com On first glance, Resilient Classrooms: Creating Healthy Environments for Learning might suffer from the same lack of name recognition that burdens every star actor’s understudy. Unlike some of its contemporaries on the stage of current educational jargon, the term resilience does not yet evoke a universal connotation—either for educators (who are the primary audience of this text) or for the general public (who are participants in the ongoing national conversations about schools in the United States). Fortunately, the authors’ straightforward chapter 1 account of the term reveals that “resilient” classrooms are the goal of virtually every educator: They are healthy places to learn, where teachers actively recognize when essential supports are missing, where teachers and students and other caring adults intervene to reinstate those supports, and where educators can demonstrate that their interventions are enhancing the learning and development of their students (p. 5). The authors of Resilient Classrooms propose an... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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