TRA-5400: Strengthening Resilience Among Learners and Educational Professionals

Haase, T. W., Wang, W.J., & Ross, A. D. (2021). The six capacities of community resilience: Evidence from three small Texas communities impacted by Hurricane Harvey. Natural Hazards, 1.
This article draws on six established capacities: social, economic, physical, human, institutional, and environmental to investigate and assess their relevance to resilience in small communities.

Demiroz, F., & Haase, T. W. (2019). The concept of resilience: a bibliometric analysis of the emergency and disaster management literature. Local Government Studies, 45(3), 308–327.
This article reviews resilience studies of communities that have experienced emergencies and disasters. Findings demonstrate that resilience research in the emergency and disaster management fields is organized into three primary clusters: environmental and ecological issues, emergency and disaster management, and public policy and administration.

Shamblin, S., Graham, D., & Bianco, J. A. (2016). Creating trauma-informed schools for rural Appalachia: The partnerships program for enhancing resiliency, confidence and workforce development in early childhood education. School Mental Health: A Multidisciplinary Research and Practice Journal, 8(1), 189.
This article describes a community-university-state partnership to pool and disseminate critical resources. The initiative resulted in increased teacher ratings of child resilience as measured by the Devereux Early Child Assessment.

Jennings, P.A., DeMauro, A.A., & Mischenko, P.P (2019). The mindful school: Transforming school culture through mindfulness and compassion. The Guilford Press.
Read Chapter 8, Creating Mindful and Compassionate Schools: Including parents as partners, pp. 189 – 206. This chapter addresses the home-school partnership, an essential element in cultivating a resilient educational community.

Aguilar, E. (2016). The art of coaching teams: building resilient communities that transform schools. Jossey-Bass.
Read Chapter 6: Developing the Emotional Intelligence of a Team, pp. 121-136. This chapter focuses on helping adults work together effectively with a high degree of emotional intelligence and its influence on community resilience.