Understanding Trauma

Articles:

Childhood Trauma

• National Childhood Traumatic Stress Network

• SAMHSA: Understanding Child Trauma

• CDC: Adverse Childhood Experiences

Trauma-Informed Education

• Edutopia: Understanding Trauma-Informed Education

• ASCD: Trauma-Informed Teaching Strategies

• Resilient Educator: Essential Trauma-Informed Teaching Strategies for Managing Stress in the Classroom

• Crisis Prevention Institute: What is Trauma-Informed Teaching and a Trauma-Responsive School?

• Hanover Research: Best Practices for Trauma-Informed Instruction

Videos:

• TED: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime

• UK Trauma Council: Childhood Trauma and the Brain

• PBS: Childhood trauma impacts millions of Americans, and it’s having devastating consequences

• CBS: Oprah explores "life-changing question" in treating childhood trauma

• PBS: Childhood Trauma and COVID-19

• California PBIS Coalition: Trauma Informed Practices in Schools: Considerations for Educators

• NAEYC: Creating Trauma Sensitive Classrooms

• Johns Hopkins University Peabody Institute: Trauma Informed Pedagogy: Teaching in the Time of COVID-19

• Ohio Department of Education: Trauma-Informed Schools

• TED: Lisa Godwin: How teachers can help students navigate trauma

Documentaries:

• Paper Tigers

• Love Them First Lessons from Lucy Laney Elementary

• The Bad Kids

• The Kids We Lose