Building Community Resilience and School Readiness Post-COVID

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 11:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Responding to Polycrises: Educational Leadership Across Intersecting Challenges and Contexts

Abstract

Resilience is both a desired outcome of school readiness and a protective factor that buffers against adversity. In one small rural community, data highlighted that it is strengthened through supportive relationships, consistent expectations, and social emotional skill-building—but undermined by family instability, disengagement, and lack of coping skills. School district leadership cultivated Community Learning Exchanges to create shared understandings of the drivers of school readiness and begin to create thoughtful pathways to heal and strengthen students and community members.

Authors

• Daniel J. Boudah, East Carolina University

• Michael Sasscer