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Building Trauma-sensitive Schools by
In the United States, at least one in four youth experiences trauma severe enough to negatively affect their school success.* Give hope and help to these students with this reader-friendly how-to guide, your springboard for building responsive, trauma-sensitive preK-12 schools. Drawing on her extensive experience as a school counselor, trainer, and mother, trauma expert Jen Alexander delivers a comprehensive framework for building a safe, supportive school environment that helps all students learn and thrive. You'll start with an evidence-based introduction to the profound impact of trauma on a child's development, attachment, and behavior. Then you'll get an effective multi-tier system of support (MTSS) for developing a trauma-sensitive learning environment, including both universal strategies (Tier 1) and more intensive interventions (Tier 2 and Tier 3) for students who need more support. Compelling anecdotes and sample scripts illuminate challenges and solutions, and the included forms and worksheets are valuable tools for helping educators build the mindset and skills necessary for becoming trauma-sensitive. With this engaging, highly practical guide to what works and why, your school team will gain insights and develop action plans that make a real difference in the lives of all kids, including our most vulnerable youth. DISCOVER HOW TO: make five key shifts in the way you view and approach students, so that you (TM)re better equipped to support themwork together to prioritize resilience by actively putting relationships first in your school implement universal instructional strategies that foster safety, connection, regulation, and learning for all studentsuse special supports, supplemental instruction, and coaching when universal strategies aren't enoughcollaborate effectively with families and colleagues to meet each student's needsincorporate restorative discipline practices that focus on restitution, not retributioncreate a personalized self-care plan to promote wellness and reduce the effects of job-related stress PRACTICAL MATERIALS: Creative activities for teachers, powerful case stories, sample dialogues and scripts for educators and counselors, reflection and brainstorming worksheets, downloadable forms, and templates and handouts for use with students. Build resilience by helping all studentsFeel safeBe connectedGet regulatedLearn * National Child Traumatic Stress Network Schools Committee, 2008
Optimizing Learning Outcomes by
Optimizing Learning Outcomes provides answers for the most pressing questions that mental health professionals, teachers, and administrators are facing in today's schools. Chapters provide a wide array of evidence-based resources--including links to video segments--that promote understanding, discussion, and successful modeling. Accessible how-to trainings provide readers with multiple sensory-based practices that improve academic success and promote behavioral regulation. Clinicians and educators will come away from this book with a variety of tools for facilitating brain-based, trauma-sensitive learning for all, realizing improved learning outcomes, improving teacher satisfaction, and reducing disciplinary actions and suspensions.
Reaching and Teaching Children Exposed to Trauma by
What does a harmed child look like? It's the little girl on the playground who has mysterious bruises on her legs. It's the three-month-old baby boy who arches his back when you try to hold him. It's the four-year-old who bites and hits when asked to clean up. These are the faces of traumatized children. As an early childhood professional, you play a key role in the early identification of maltreatment and unhealthy patterns of development. You are also the gateway to healing. In Reaching and Teaching Children Exposed to Trauma, you will find the tools and strategies to connect with harmed children and start them on the path to healing.
Trauma-Informed Practices for Early Childhood Educators by
Trauma-Informed Practices for Early Childhood Educators guides child care providers and early educators working with infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and early elementary aged children to understand trauma as well as its impact on young children's brains, behavior, learning, and development. The book introduces a range of trauma-informed teaching and family engagement strategies that readers can use in their early childhood programs to create strength-based environments that support children's health, healing, and resiliency. Supervisors and coaches will learn a range of powerful trauma-informed practices that they can use to support workforce development and enhance their quality improvement initiatives.
Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom by
In this galvanizing book for all educators, Kristin Souers and Pete Hall explore an urgent and growing issue--childhood trauma--and its profound effect on learning and teaching. Grounded in research and the authors' experience working with trauma-affected students and their teachers, Fostering Resilient Learners will help you cultivate a trauma-sensitive learning environment for students across all content areas, grade levels, and educational settings. The authors--a mental health therapist and a veteran principal--provide proven, reliable strategies to help you * Understand what trauma is and how it hinders the learning, motivation, and success of all students in the classroom. * Build strong relationships and create a safe space to enable students to learn at high levels. * Adopt a strengths-based approach that leads you to recalibrate how you view destructive student behaviors and to perceive what students need to break negative cycles. * Head off frustration and burnout with essential self-care techniques that will help you and your students flourish. Each chapter also includes questions and exercises to encourage reflection and extension of the ideas in this book. As an educator, you face the impact of trauma in the classroom every day. Let this book be your guide to seeking solutions rather than dwelling on problems, to building relationships that allow students to grow, thrive, and--most assuredly--learn at high levels.
Building a Trauma-Informed Restorative School by 
For answers to more frequently asked questions about Adverse Childhood Experiences, scroll down below the infographic.
A news site that reports on research about adverse childhood experiences, including developments in epidemiology, neurobiology, and the biomedical and epigenetic consequences of toxic stress.
Mission to promote healing of children impacted by trauma through supporting their families, schools, and communities.
Learn more about preventing ACEs in your community by assuring safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments.
Comprehensive website and online community that increases knowledge, sharing, and adoption of what works in K-12 education.
Education Week site discusses as school districts explore trauma-informed practices or work to develop trauma-sensitive schools, a new understanding of trauma is emerging.
Center's diverse activities align around building an R&D (research and development) platform for science-based innovation, and transforming the policy and practice landscape that supports and even demands change.
Empowers school psychologists by advancing effective practices to improve students’ learning, behavior, and mental health.
Since 1990, our experts have assisted hundreds of schools and communities in the U.S. and abroad cope in the aftermath of tragedy, playing a vital role in helping to foster resilience after crisis events,.
Offers information and technical assistance to states, districts, schools, institutions of higher learning, and communities focused on improving school climate and conditions for learning.
Established to improve access to care, treatment, and services for traumatized children and adolescents exposed to traumatic events.
The Association and its affiliates are actively engaged in finding ways for schools and educators to address the issue of trauma and its implications for learning, behavior, and school safety.
To support educators and students during these rapidly evolving times, we’ve gathered a list of grief and loss resources for self-care, wellness, and resiliency from the Coalition and some of its member organizations.
Fostering and building resilience among children is the focus of the Partnership for Resilience, a growing array of education, health and civic institutions.
An educational consulting firm that offers educators to the resources and tools needed to build resilience with students, staff and families at school through a trauma-informed schools model.
This is a virtual space that understands the needs of teachers and the importance of resilient educators. With content and resources created by real educators with real experience.
Provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school.
Two day conference designed to build the capacity of educators to build and sustain system-wide, trauma-informed support for all students.
120-minute professional development session designed for educators seeking research-based strategies to create a healthy classroom environment for students who have experienced adversities and trauma.
The purpose of this blog is to create a space to share thoughts, questions, suggestions, links, research, and resources related to trauma-informed teaching and learning.
Mission is to ensure that children traumatized by exposure to family violence and other adverse childhood experiences succeed in school.
Blog includes articles offering hope for challenging issues in your classroom.
Promotes trauma-informed school systems that provide prevention and early intervention strategies to create supportive and nurturing school environments.
Tea for Teaching: 131 - Trauma Informed Pedagogy
The current global pandemic has led to severe disruptions in people's lives from unexpected traumatic events which reduced the ability to focus, learn and be productive especially for students. In this episode, Karen Costa discusses how trauma informed pedagogy can be used to help our students on their academically as well as emotionally.
The Cult of Pedagogy: Episode 95 - Twelve Ways Teachers Can Build Their Own Resilience
This episode discusses various ways to make yourself a more emotionally resilient educator.
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.
Re-thinking how we relate to and build relationships with students who have social-emotional needs, as well as connect with students who may have experienced trauma in their lives.