An educator's function exceeds traditional subject teaching. It includes monitoring and enhancing a child's physical and emotional well-being. Today's children face a plethora of risks and educators are on the front line of the defensive. To build childhood fortitude, the authors call on teachers to become aware of the characteristics of resilience and to make its construction a component of their standard curriculum and teaching strategy. The article provides teachers with a checklist of indicators and a list of techniques that educators can use to boost students' positive development in the classroom. Ideally, the model can be incorporated into general and special education classes.