What is the Link Between Resiliency Skills Addressed in Success Highways and Academic Growth/Failure?
“Resiliency” refers to the range of skills and cognitive templates that students must possess to effectively navigate school and life challenges (Masten, 2001; Masten, Best, & Garmezy, 1990). Although many risk factors lie outside a school’s scope of influence, Success Highways assists educators in helping their students develop the resiliency, or developmental assets, they need to ensure that these risk factors do not result in school failure. Success Highways focuses on helping students build the resiliency most consistently related to academic success and failure which include: Goal Setting Much has been written about the importance of goals. Most recently, Paul Baltes and his colleagues have conducted longitudinal research on this topic and have found that healthier life outcomes were related to individuals who engaged in three goal-setting strategies. These strategies form the title of the researchers’ SOC (selection, optimization, compensation) model. Individuals who had higher S
