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Standing up for what we know our students and schools need is hard.
Educators face enormous challenges these days. Disgruntled community members, outdated school policies, relentless workload and time pressures, and students’ growing mental health issues, to name a few. To face these challenges on a daily basis and not succumb to a world-weary sense of grief or Monday-morning dread requires COURAGE.
Courage in Education: Facing Challenges with Strength, Determination, and Hope is a new online course designed to inspire courageous action in you and your students—in classrooms, schools, and beyond.
Learn from researchers and educators who share how courage can help us to:
- Face challenges with a sense of clarity, determination, and hope
- Clarify what really matters so that we can find a steadier, values-based resolve—and even inspire it in our students and colleagues
- Act on behalf of our truest, most cherished values—values such as love, learning, curiosity, compassion, and justice
- “Live with heart” and become the people we want to be
We hope you will join us as we explore the science of courage, listen to educators’ courage stories, and discover practical strategies for fostering greater courage in ourselves, our colleagues, and our students.
How this course will benefit students, classrooms, schools… and you!
Courage bolsters our well-being.
- Adolescents higher in courage report greater satisfaction with their lives. And later in life, greater courage is related to a greater sense of purpose and life satisfaction.
Courage helps us to navigate social and emotional challenges.
- Greater courage in adolescents and adults is related to more active use of coping strategies (e.g., seeking social support and engaging in positive problem solving). In other words, the practice of courage helps us to adapt in difficult situations (rather than avoid them)—and to work toward reaching our personal and professional goals.
Courage prepares us to take academic risks.
- Rather than avoid an assignment, students who engage in “academic courage” learn to persevere through a difficult learning task despite their fear, leading to more positive academic outcomes.
Courage emboldens us to stand up for our beliefs.
- Courage is related to a willingness to speak up at work. When we have the courage to question the status quo (e.g., norms and policies), we potentially effect change in our institutions.
Courage undergirds authentic leadership and collegial trust.
- Theorists link courage with authentic leadership and trust-building between leaders and employees. In other words, school leaders who courageously demonstrate openness and vulnerability with their staff help foster a trusting school culture.
