The dark, dreary months of winter can often lead to seasonal doldrums. Some of the Clancy junior high students have decided, as an optional elective to pursue during their study halls, to take some positive action to stay strong.
School librarian Tona Iwen says she was looking for ways to help students adjust to the first days back after holiday break, when the excitement of Christmas presents and new year festivities lies in the past, and dark, cold snowy days loom on the horizon. Iwen sought a way to teach the value of resilience and endurance skills to her students, by encouraging positive thinking and helping students catalog their feelings..
“I was trying to think of an interesting way to get the kids thinking about resilience, as well as ways to improve their resilient traits, when advent calendars popped into my head and the “Resilience Calendar” was conceived,” Iwen recounts.
