Video Resources
Science of ACEs/Prevention: Wellness Wheel
A video message to educators during COVID about the science of prevention.
By Dr. Burke Harris and the Association of California School Administrators
A Number Is Not Always A Number
A message of hope for resilience regarding early childhood adversity.
By ACE Resource Network
Resilience as a continuum
A video that explains resilience as a continuum. We are all resilient, and individuals can use skills to become more resilient.
By Dovetail Learning
Protective Patterns: Self-awareness to navigate student mental health
A video that answers the questions, “What are Protective Patterns? How do they serve us and limit us?” The We Are Resilient approach distinguishes six Protective Patterns we all learned early in life in order to feel safe.
By Dovetail Learning
InBrief: Resilience Series - Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
A video on the science of resilience. Resilience can help us understand why some children do well despite serious adversity. Resilience is a combination of protective factors that enable people to adapt in the face of serious hardship, and is essential to ensuring that children who experience adversity can still become healthy, productive citizens.
By Harvard University Center on the Developing Child
Print Resources
Practical Skills for Resilient Educators | Dovetail Learning
A book that highlights research-based skills for educator resilience. This open-educational resource is free and has specific ways to build your resilience.
By Dovetail Learning
Compassion Resilience Toolkit
A digital toolkit to help professionals and caregivers maintain well-being and compassion in their work. Includes best practices related to positive psychology, compassion fatigue, organizational psychology, trauma, and equity.
By The WISE Initiative for Stigma Elimination
The Compassion Fatigue Workbook
A workbook for educators to understand their own warning signs of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma, an essential skill for teacher retention and sustainable school culture.
By Françiose Mathieu
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
An excerpt from the book Trauma Stewardship that explores the idea of trauma exposure and bearing witness to others experiencing trauma and the effects on those exposed.
By Laura van Dernoot Lipsky with Connie Burk