Building Resilient and Capable Students
An overview of Flourishing Advantage in education: how the Flourishing Life Questionnaire and the four-domain framework help schools build resilient, capable students, with results from a six-year case study. For school and district leaders.
Helping educators hear, understand and respond to the potential of every student, as the starting point for building the capacity to flourish.
The changing role of schools and educators
Schools are now measured on more than academic results. Resilience, character strengths and life skills sit alongside achievement, and students show higher readiness for post-secondary study and employment when educators design learning conditions around a strengths-based model.
Why now
Research shows that strengths-based practice raises the student outcomes schools are accountable for and improves staff retention, reducing cost to schools and districts. A strengths-based culture is the condition that makes those results repeatable rather than occasional.
The Flourishing Advantage Framework
Inputs from the Flourishing Life Questionnaire (FLQ) produce an individual profile for each student across four measured domains. The profile shows what a student can already draw on, and where support will make the most difference.
The Flourishing Life Questionnaire
Real-time results. 30–35 minutes, completed online.
What it measures
- Resilience capacity
- Personal and environmental strengths
- Flourishing mindsets
- Flourishing potential
- Ten core competency factors
- Seven well-being factors
- Student feedback report
Resilient students achieve more
How student and teacher relationships changed
One middle school decided to make student well-being a priority alongside academics. A second questionnaire a few months later showed measurable movement in how students experienced the adults around them.
"The web-based data site was easy to access and the results were easy to understand. What made the difference is that we can now focus on facts, with the right information to make decisions."
— Renee Coulombe, Secondary Principal
"Based on the strengths-based model and tools developed by Dr. Wayne Hammond at Flourishing Advantage, we were able to clarify each student's strengths and vulnerabilities and provide the support they needed."
— Don Barbor, High School Principal
What schools receive
- Flourishing Life Questionnaire. Completed online by each student.
- Individual strengths report. Natural strengths and areas to keep building.
- Online assessment platform. Secure access, two dashboard permission levels, seven aggregated trend views, filtering by age, grade and other identifiers.
- School action plan. Supporting documents for administrators, counsellors and teachers.
- Applied practice framework. A route to integrate the model into existing programs and curricula.
- Online coaching and training. For staff teams and school leadership.
Getting started is straightforward
Start with one grade or one school. Set the baseline, act on what it shows, and measure again at the end of the year.
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