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SCHOOL PROGRAM
"Reclaiming the Sky"
Resiliency Project

Many of today's students were not born on 9/11. For them, the book "Reclaiming the Sky" can provide important lessons in resiliency they can apply to their lives.

Also, many schools across the country are looking for ways to commemorate the Anniversary of 9/11 each year. This project can give teachers a way to do this, while helping them develop their students "resiliency strengths."

Certainly, students have experienced challenges in their lives already that demand resiliency, including the Covid 19 crisis as well as other crises, sometimes private, that have come along. At the Human Resiliency Institute at Fordham University, we are eager to work with schools to give their students a chance to explore the "power" of resiliency through the stories of the 9/11 heroes profiled in "Reclaiming the Sky" and learn how to turn the lessons into "tools" to counter adversity. Developing positive habits around resiliency now can last a lifetime!

Here's how the School Program works:

  1. A school indicates an interest to participate – by "contacting us."
  2. The Human Resiliency Institute at Fordham will work with the school to identify ways to get books to their students. (Currently, we're working with the publisher to get a discount rate on E-Books.)
  3. The school determines which student groups they wish to include in the project. Students are given the book in the spring as a reading assignment over the summer, either as a formal assignment by their teacher, or on a volunteer basis.
  4. Students who wish to enter the essay competition, can enter the program's essay competition and write a 500 to 700 word essay expressing a lesson they learned and submit their essay by August 15. See below for details and a link to submit.
  5. On September 9, the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, NY will host a "Roundtable" to give students an opportunity to meet with the author and a group of aviation heroes profiled in the book to share lessons they learned and discuss ways to apply them going forward. (The goal is to "stream" this session live so schools across the country can participate.)

ESSAY COMPETITION – HOW TO ENTER:

Students who wish to write an essay – click here for full details and a link to submit your essay.




SUGGESTION TO HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUCTORS:

Visit the Home page and listen to the segments on "heroism" in the radio interview toward the bottom of that page.

Consider playing these segments for your students to give them an introduction to the courage and resiliency of the 9/11 heroes profiled in the book, and as a way to generate interest with students.

Read the Partnership Letter from the President of the Cradle of Aviation Museum.

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