Cheryl James-Ward

The Resilience Game Plan: The Tween Playbook for Developing Cognitive, Communication, and Mindfulness Skills Training provides a curriculum for middle schools (advisory, health, or home room classes) to help students instill resiliency and learn tools to provide their brains a barrier of protection as they encounter difficulties throughout their lifetime. By implementing the intervention techniques in The Resilience Game Plan, school and medical professionals are providing teenagers an opportunity to improve their short- and long-term mental and physical health outcomes.

The Resilience Game Plan: The Teen Playbook for Developing Cognitive, Communication, and Mindfulness Skills Training provides a 15-week curriculum for high schools (advisory, health, or home room classes) to help students instill resiliency and learn tools to provide their brains a barrier of protection as they encounter difficulties throughout their lifetime. By implementing the intervention techniques in The Resilience Game Plan, school and medical professionals are providing teenagers an opportunity to improve their short- and long-term mental and physical health outcomes.

Data. Does the word make you cringe? Does it evoke feelings of guilt? Are you unsure how to distill it and use it effectively?Grab this book and learn how to empower yourself and your school community with information gleaned from your school's data. Experienced educators and authors offer simple instructions that can help focus school improvement efforts and result in increasing teacher expertise—a factor that positively affects the quality of life for students long after they have left the classroom. Accepting responsibility for such far-reaching influence requires educators to adopt instructional improvement as a standard by which a school needs to operate and as a means to collaborate and interact with one another. More than that, though, instructional improvement is an important component of successful schools.