Understanding Resilience
Resilience in Action
Mindset Matters
Resilient School Leaders
Famous Words of Resilience
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What is the the ability to successfully adapt to difficult experiences, challenges, and setbacks?
What is resilience?
100
What daily practice involves recognizing and appreciating the positive things in your life, even during difficult times?
What is gratitude?
100
When faced with a difficult situation, what do resilient leaders have the power to choose: the challenge itself or how they respond to it?
What is how they respond to it?
100
What leadership approach allows teachers, staff, families, and students to participate in decision-making and contribute to solutions?
What is distributed leadership?
100
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
Which American industrialist is credited with this statement?
Who was Henry Ford?
200
Resilience is more than simply bouncing back. What is the additional outcome that resilient people strive for?
What is growing and learning from adversity?
200
This practice involves intentionally slowing down, becoming more self-aware, and focusing on the present moment
What is mindfulness?
200
A school leader experiences an unexpected setback but believes that positive change is still possible while acknowledging the challenges. What type of outlook is this?
What is realistic optimism?
200
A school leader admits, "I don't have all the answers. Let's work through this together." What leadership quality does this demonstrate?
What is confident vulnerability?
200
"Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them."
Which veteran educator delivered this powerful message in her TED Talk?
Who is Rita Pierson?
300
According to the Center for Creative Leadership, what are the four interconnected areas that contribute to leadership resilience?
What are physical, mental, emotional, and social resilience?
300
According to the Center for Creative Leadership, what practice involves developing and maintaining relationships that provide encouragement, perspective, and support during challenging times?
What are social connections?
300
In the Stimulus → Interpretation → Response model (S → I → R), what happens between experiencing a challenge and deciding how to respond?
What is interpreting or making sense of the situation?
300
According to New Leaders, what kind of school culture recognizes that mistakes, setbacks, and disappointments are expected and valuable parts of learning?
What is a culture of resilience?
300
"Difficulties break some men but make others."
Which former South African president wrote these words in a letter to his wife while imprisoned on Robben Island?
Who is Nelson Mandela?
