Teaching the Skills of Resilience
Programs
The WhyTry Program focuses on teaching resilience skills and is usually the starting point for our customers. Resilience for Youth focuses on the sources of resilience. Both programs build resilience, each through a distinct approach.
Training
Build your expertise in student engagement and motivation through one of our training courses—offered in person, live virtual, or self-paced online. You’ll leave with proven strategies and tools to create a positive learning environment where students thrive.
Administrator Toolkit
Our Transformational Leader Toolkit helps school leaders build staff capacity by equipping them with the skills and resources needed to create positive teacher–student relationships. It offers practical, proven tools for strengthening school culture.
Your Partner for
Student Wellness
and Resilience
For more than 20 years, WhyTry has led the way. Our practical resources and effective tools have helped educators across the country. WhyTry can help you address mental health issues, following evidence-based practices and using a trauma-informed approach. Let’s partner to build resilience in every student.
Join us for our next webinar!
The Resilient Educator – Webinar Series
“Repairing Relationships, Rebuilding Engagement: Restorative Practices and WhyTry Strategies That Work”
Join us for a practical conversation with Gerald Robinson, LCSW, and Flossie Robinson, M.Ed., from Creative Restorative Practice Services, and Bruce Bushnell from WhyTry, for a meaningful and practical conversation on how restorative practices and resilience education can work together to support students and school communities.
This webinar will focus on the real challenges educators face and offer strategies you can begin using right away.
- How restorative practices can help address conflict, behavior challenges, and disconnection
- Why relationship repair is essential for student accountability and growth
- How WhyTry strategies can strengthen resilience, motivation, and emotional regulation
- Practical tools educators can use to help students reflect, reconnect, and move forward
- Ways to support students without ignoring accountability or classroom expectations
Wednesday, June 10th at:
1:00-2:00 Mountain | 12 Pacific | 2 Central | 3 Eastern
Success Stories
Lake Chelan School District
Learn how staff, administrators, and students all worked together to improve academic success by combining WhyTry with a peer support network.
Bismarck Public Schools
Learn how Wendy Bakken, a Speech Pathologist at Bismarck High School, uses WhyTry to engage and motivate any student.
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Years In Business
200k
Trained Educators
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Schools
3 million +
Students Impacted
The Whytry program
Motivate any student
WhyTry is a flexible toolkit and curriculum for teachers and counselors. It provides simple,
hands-on strategies and resources to help motivate the unmotivated student, support students with trauma, improve engagement, and increase academic success.
Why Choose Whytry?
Empowering Administrators
Our Administrator Toolkit is a trusted tool leadership teams can use to transform school culture. Leaders use the toolkit to create a shift in perspective with teachers and staff and help them build caring relationships with students that motivate and inspire trust.