Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis says that the state’s schoolchildren must learn essential life skills to become successful adults: grit and perseverance to help them face adversity, problem-solving, and self-management.
It boils down to resilience, she said in a roundtable discussion at Florida State University on March 22.
Following the roundtable, the state’s Board of Education adopted revised Resiliency Standards, which moved to define the term, elevate mentorship, and create new school roles for parents, the governor’s press office said.
The mother of three said that in talking about mental health with parents and teachers around the state, she learned that students experiencing hardship “felt that they were damaged goods” and that they couldn’t overcome their situation….