Trauma follows children into the classroom—a new teaching model is changing that

Traumatic experiences can have ripple effects that permeate across many aspects of people's lives. For students, adverse childhood experiences have been shown to impact attention, memory, language ...
The Conversation

‘Lit therapy’ in the classroom: writing about trauma can be valuable, if done right

Yannick Thoraval is a member of the National Tertiary Education Union. Yannick Thoraval and Jill Parris also worked together on the project, Home Truths: An Anthology of Refugee and Migrant Writing.
Inside Higher Ed

Trauma and the College Classroom

Trauma surrounds us. Perhaps you recall the abduction in April 2014 of 276 schoolgirls from a government secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria. Or Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children. Or the ...
Psychology Today

Racial Trauma in Schools: Breaking the Cycle Before It Starts

When we talk about racial trauma, too often, the conversation begins in adulthood. But the truth is, racial trauma takes root much earlier, inside our schools. For Black children, the classroom is ...
Education Week

With Larry Ferlazzo

The new question-of-the-week is: What is trauma-informed teaching and what does it look like in the classroom? Editor’s Note: This two-part series is being “guest-hosted” by a longtime regular ...