Trauma-Informed Practices
Getting Started with Trauma-informed Practices
Trauma-informed practices focus on creating safe and supportive learning environments by helping students develop positive relationships with peers and adults. A trauma-informed approach recognizes that trauma affects staff, students, families. Creating a safe learning environment and building relationships with students will help them overcome challenges from both the collective trauma of Covid-19 and any individual trauma they’ve experienced.
Ted Talk - Healing Trauma with Good Relationships
Dr. Karen Treisman, a Clinical Psychologist, talks about the importance of forging good relationships when it comes to understanding and healing trauma.
How Do We Get There? Becoming a Trauma Sensitive School
All children and staff need to feel safe, welcomed and supported at school. This video explores the following: How we become a trauma sensitive school is not about a list of things we have to do. How we get there starts with what’s important to us. What is our urgency as a school and how do we address that? What actions do we take?
Trauma-Informed Resources for Schools
child_trauma_toolkit_educators.pdf
Trauma-Informed Approaches in the Classroom
Strategies for managing stress in the classroom
As teachers are the adults who see students for the longest periods of time throughout the day, they play a critical role in recognizing the symptoms of trauma and treating it at the classroom level. Check out these tips that are absolutely essential for anyone working with trauma. Learn about the eight categories of trauma and trauma-informed approach best practices for classrooms.
Teaching students to cope with daily crises
Explicitly teaching our students about stress responses and resilience can help them better recognize their emotions, cope with stress, and reach out for help before they act out. Social-emotional learning tools can have a profound and long-term impact on our students and the classroom. Here’s how to get started.
Read Teaching Students to Cope With Daily Crises
How responsive teaching eases traumatic effects
Recognizing where our students come from, what they’re facing, and how we can help them in different ways is a key component of responsive teaching practices.
Read How Responsive Teaching Eases Traumatic Effects
How to counsel students facing a tragedy
When students face trauma and tragedy, educators need practical resources to facilitate difficult discussions and support their learning communities. Here are some powerful resources for teaching and counseling through tragedy for educators on the front lines.