Trauma Responsive Educational Practices

<p><strong>No educator can ignore the effects of traumatic stressors on students. This is especially true for those in schools serving racially and ethnically marginalized or low-income children.</strong> <p>Every day millions of students in the United States go to school weighed down by interpersonal traumas community traumas and the traumatic effects of historical and contemporary race-based oppression.<p>A wide range of adverse childhood events--including physical verbal emotional and sexual abuse; chronic bullying; community or domestic violence; and food and housing insecurity--can lead to a host of negative outcomes. However when schools provide developmentally supportive responses to these challenges post-traumatic growth becomes possible.<p>In <em>Trauma Responsive Educational Practices </em> Micere Keels<p> * examines the neurobiology of trauma;<br>* presents mindfulness strategies that strengthen student self-regulation and extend professional longevity; and<br>* demonstrates how to build pedagogically caring relationships psychologically safe discipline and an emotionally safe classroom learning climate.<p>Keels also shows educators how to attend to equity and use trauma as a critical lens through which to plan instruction and respond to challenging situations with coregulation.<p>It's important to understand that trauma is subjective and complex treatment is not prescriptive and recovery takes time. This book helps educators support students on that road--not merely to survive trauma but to focus on their strengths and flourish with effective coping skills.</p>