Resilience as Resistance: Exposing and Redesigning the Systems That Demand It

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Too often, we highlight stories of individual students and families who demonstrate extraordinary resilience in the face of educational barriers. While these narratives can be inspiring, they also risk masking the deeper, systemic issues that make such resilience necessary in the first place. To go beyond the surface, conditions must be examined that create the need for resilience at all.  What do schools and educators need to learn—and do—to ensure that students and families are not required to be resilient just to access a fair and supportive education?  How can schools redesign systems, shift mindsets, and foster environments that prioritize equity, belonging, and care—so resilience becomes the exception, not the expectation?

Panel Host: Dr. Paula Patterson     Q&A Moderator: Kaleigh Pickett

Presenters

Assistant Professor of Special Education Katherine A. Graves

Katherine A. Graves

Assistant Professor of Special Education
Utah State University

Director of Educational Graduate Programs, Sch. of Education Karen Hall

Karen Hall

Director of Educational Graduate Programs, Sch. of Education
Saint Louis University

Owner, Licensed Clinical Social Worker Claire Slama

Claire Slama

Owner, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Activate Counseling