Academic Resilience resources
Fostering academic resilience: A brief review of the evidence for the resilience-attainment link (doc)
Resilience Framework (pdf)
Interactive Resilience Framework – with supporting information (pdf)
Pictorial Resilience Framework for children with learning difficulties (ppt)
The Resilient Classroom (pdf) – bite-size, downloadable activities for 20 minute sessions, useful for PSHE or tutor group sessions
The Resilient Classroom – Malaysian Version (pdf) – bite-size, downloadable activities for 20 minute sessions
Resilient classroom slide pack (pdf)
Ideas for Assembly Time (doc)
Guide to resilience approaches in schools and communities (pdf)
Co-production in promoting resilience – what does this mean for schools? (pdf)
Identifying vulnerable pupils resources
Identifying a pupil’s risk and resilience factors
Pyramid of Need (ppt)
Safeguarding factsheet (doc)
School Audit resources
Resilience Zap Session Programme (doc)
Resilience Zap Presentation (ppt)
Staff Audit exercise with guidance (doc)
Questions to ask as part of the audit (doc)
Audit process overview (ppt)
Senior Leadership Team questions to ask (doc)
Staff resilience survey with guidance (doc)
School resilience survey with guidance (doc)
Pupil focus group exercise (doc)
Pupil focus group powerpoint resource (ppt)
Engaging with parents and carers resources
Parent engagement research and best practice (pdf)
Achievement for All structured conversation handbook (pdf)
LEAP guidance on structured conversations with parents for Head Teachers and school staff (pdf)
Communication tips (pdf)
Do parents know they matter? (pdf)
YoungMinds Parents Helpline – if you, parents or carers have concerns about a child’s emotional or mental health, call the parents helpline for advice and support
Commissioning services resources
Commissioning case study (doc)
Commissioning resource catalogue (pdf)
Commissioning checklist for schools (doc)
Further information and resources
Resilience Framework guidance
Boingboing resources
Short films to promote resilience approaches in schools
Get in touch
Have you been using the Academic Resilience Approach in school, or even just some of the ideas and tools? We would like to know about it. Drop us a line and we will make sure you are notified of any updates.
The Boingboing Resilience Framework
The Resilience Framework is a handy table that summarises ‘what works’ when supporting children and young people’s resilience according to the Resilience Research base. The Resilience Framework forms a cornerstone of our research and practice. On this page we have pulled together lots of useful links so you can find out all about the Resilience Framework.
Ready, Set, Resilience
Ready, Set, Resilience is a workbook and supporting guidance created to support young people’s resilience aimed at year 9 students. It uses mixture of activities which support individual resilience (beating the odds) and activities to support changing the odds like activism.
The Academic Resilience Approach
Our resources help any school establish systems to build ‘resilience approaches’ that support disadvantaged pupils over time through a whole school approach. Benefitting all pupils and increasing academic resilience, the ARA helps everyone in the school community play a part.
Interactive Resilience Framework
The Interactive Resilience Framework was developed especially for schools with children and young people in mind and has more detail about each idea, including relevant research evidence, suggestions of what to do, and what you people themselves think.
Building child and family resilience – Boingboing’s resilience approach in action
This briefing seeks to build practice approaches to building resilience in the context of the social deprivation that is the experience of many of the most disadvantaged families.
Fostering academic resilience a brief review of the evidence base
It is very clear that poor school outcomes can have catastrophic long-term consequences, and there is growing recognition that schools should address ALL pupils’ needs. This brief review of the evidence explores what is meant by the term resilience and gives an overview of what schools can do to foster it in their pupils.
Evaluating resilience-based programs for schools using a systematic consultative review
The aim of this paper is to explain how and why school-based resilience approaches for young people aged 12-18 do (or do not) work in particular contexts, holding in mind the parents and practitioners who engage with young people on a daily basis, and whom we consulted in the empirical element of our work, as our audience.
Schools mental health guide
Supporting children and young people in their mental health: A guide for East Sussex schools. A resilience-based, whole school approach to promoting positive mental health and addressing individual needs.
Supporting mental health and emotional wellbeing at school
A short guide to how you can best support mental health and emotional wellbeing at school – Tips for teachers and staff in schools as recommended by young people.
About the Academic Resilience Approach
There are many school resilience programmes which aim to narrow the gap between pupils who do well academically and those who don’t. A lot of them are very useful, so why have we put this information together? Resilience programmes can be expensive – we wanted to offer something everyone could access for free.
How do I improve results through an Academic Resilience Approach?
A lot of schools struggle with how they can improve the results – or close the gap – for the more challenged, disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils in the school. This is much harder and requires much more attention to detail across the whole school.
Audit the whole school
A systematic approach to understanding your school and identifying where and what you might do to better promote resilience can help the whole school community to look through a ‘resilience lens’ in order to close the gap for disadvantaged pupils or those facing additional challenges.
