Book outlines a comprehensive, collaborative approach to teaching students living with trauma, violence, and chronic stress that focuses on students' strengths and resiliency.

Introduction -- The urgent need for a strengths-based approach -- Preparing to work with diverse learners -- Creating a strengths-based classroom learning environment -- Scaffolding student-to-student relationships -- Fostering family/guardian engagement -- Infusing a strengths-based approach across a school -- Capitalizing on community assets to build partnerships.