RISE 3: Resilience In Schools and Education

The development of the RISE programme

By Dr Lee Randall

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The Resilience in Schools and Education (RISE) programme is an evidence-based programme, grounded in resilience research. We created this to give schools and teachers the tools they will need to best support build up children’s resilience. While the principals and strategies are especially timely as children return to school following extended periods away, we also know that building children’s resilience is always an important endeavour to protect and improve wellbeing, and to enable children to flourish and thrive.

The RISE programme is an intensive teacher course based upon eight well-established and fundamental pillars of resilience which collectively encompass all of children’s important resilience capacity. These are the 7Cs + 1E:

• Competence

• Contribution

• Confidence

• Connectedness

• Character

• Coping

• Control

• Enjoyment

Given that children are coming back to school following a wide variety of different experiences, and the impact will be different for all, RISE gives teachers the opportunity to adaptively respond to the needs of their individual classes and individual children.

For each of the 7Cs + 1E, we explore what these mean to children and why they are so crucial for a child’s resilience, before detailing several key ‘Resilience Powers’ (practical strategies) for each that we can use together with children in our class / school. The Resilience Powers come with many practical, impactful and straightforward strategies (as well as numerous resources). This gives staff the opportunity to build up children’s resilience capacity with relative ease, and maximises the time invested with the outcomes for children.

The RISE program will give you the tools as an educational professional to identify areas of resilience where children may be struggling and work directly with them to develop their self esteem, adaptive skills and robustness, instilling the belief in their own abilities that children need to thrive. So if you want a program for your school that offers practical, easily implementable strategies to support children’s emotional wellbeing, mental health and preparedness to learn, The RISE program may be for you.

This is part 3 of 3 blogs in this resilience series.

• See Part 1: ‘Education in a time of COVID-19’

• See Part 2: ‘The Importance of Resiliency’

To find out more about whole-school RISE (Resilience In Schools and Education) training for your school, click here.

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