1.
Building Resiliency
Angela Housand
angelahousand.com
@housanda

2.
resilience
1. the capacity to recover quickly from
difficulties; toughness.
2. the ability of a substance or object to
spring back into shape; elasticity.
noun

3.
“A child's greatest achievements are possible
in play, achievements that tomorrow will
become her basic level of real action.”
Vygotsky

4.
The Year of…
GREAT
EXPECTATIONS

5.
3rd

6.
95,000
college students
surveyed

7.
Over 1/2 reported
Academics had been
“very difficult to handle”

8.
Overwhelmed
Exhausted
Extreme Anxiety 60.8%
82.6%
86%

9.
BORED FRUSTRATED

10.
Ascending
Intellectual
Demand Zone of
Proximal
Development

11.
Stay
in the
Struggle

12.
What is
YOUR
definition of
success?

13.
It is impossible to live
without failing at something,
unless you live so cautiously
that you might as well
not have lived at all.
In which case,
you fail by default.
J.K. Rowling

14.
PROVIDE THE
OPPORTUNITY
FOR FAILURE

15.
The Year of…
GREATER
EXPECTATIONS

16.
4th

17.
False praise can be as
harmful as no praise!

18.
Don’t
you
think
if I were
wrong,
I’d
KNOW it?

19.
Lack of
Honest
Self-Appraisal
Skills

20.
MAINTAIN
RIGOROUS
STANDARDS

21.
The Year of…
EVEN GREATER
EXPECTATIONS

22.
5th

23.
I have not failed 1000 times…
-Thomas Edison

24.
I have not failed 1000 times…
I have successfully
discovered 1000 ways to NOT
make a light bulb.
-Thomas Edison

25.
FAILURE
isn’t a necessary evil.
In FACT, it isn’t EVIL at all.
It is a NECESSARY
consequence of doing
something NEW.
- Ed Catmull

26.
FAILEARLY
FAILFAST

27.
Fear of Failure
Goal Achievement
Opportunities

28.
“Fear of Failure” Signs:
• Worry what others will think
• Attempt to lower expectations
• Physical symptoms
• Procrastination

29.
Overcome adversity.

30.
TEACH
HEALTHY
COPING

31.
The Year of…
A NEW HOPE

32.
6th

33.
Risk
Taking

34.
Increased Sense of Control

35.
5 Categories of Risk
Intellectual
Social
Emotional
Physical
Spiritual
(Neihart, 1999)

36.
ENCOURAGE
RISK
TAKING

37.
Resilience

38.
Upon returning to my school site
after the summer break,
I was informed that my gifted
students…
From the Email

39.
…made the most growth that
our school has ever seen for
the 5th grade gifted population.
From the Email

40.
YOUR
COMFORT
ZONE

41.
The greater danger for
most of us lies not in
setting our aim too high
and falling short;
but in setting our aim
too low, and achieving
our mark.
-Michelangelo

42.
Building Resiliency
Angela Housand
angelahousand.com
@housanda