Fifteen questions. Ten minutes. One clearer picture of your school.
In this episode, we explore how the RSSI Screener Survey helps Illinois administrators uncover strengths and gaps in trauma-responsiveness, mental health, and school climate.

What if ten minutes could change how you see your entire school?

In this premiere episode of The Resilience Snapshot, Principal Nadine Okafor and school social worker Diane Kowalski unpack the 15-question RSSI Screener Survey — and why it’s more than “just another survey.”

Built by the Center for Childhood Resilience in partnership with ISBE, RSSI combines voluntary screener responses with existing Illinois School Report Card and 5Essentials data to generate a personalized resilience snapshot across four pillars:

• Trauma-responsiveness
• Social-emotional learning
• Mental health
• Cultural responsiveness

Nadine shares how the RSSI snapshot revealed blind spots in her own building — not a crisis, but a starting point. Diane explains why adverse childhood experiences don’t follow zip codes and why every Illinois school benefits from a shared framework for recognizing and responding to student stress.

If you’re an Illinois administrator, this episode walks you through exactly how to access the RSSI Screener Survey inside IWAS — and why those fifteen questions may be the most important ten minutes your school invests this year.

Your data already tells a story. RSSI helps you see it.

Produced by The Signal Lab using AI-generated voices. All content is human-written, fact-checked against CCR and ISBE materials, and reviewed by CCR’s communications team. Personas are fictional characters representing authentic professional perspectives.