Being a
Trauma-
Sensitive School
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What is Trauma?
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What is Trauma?
Trauma is a lasting emotional response from living through a distressing event.
What are some distressing events you know our students deal with every day?
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Lasting effects from trauma
What behavior issues do you see in your classroom that could be an effect of trauma?
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Poverty
Poverty is a chronic experience resulting from an aggregate of adverse social and economic risk factors.
How does Poverty affect our students?
“The classroom teacher is still the single most significant contributor to student achievement; the effect is greater than that of parents, peers, entire schools, or poverty”
~Eric Jensen
(Poor Students, Rich Teaching)
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What does it mean to be a trauma sensitive school?
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Being a trauma-sensitive school comes down to CULTURE
Traumatic experiences CAN impact learning, behavior, & relationships at school.
A trauma-sensitive school help ALL children to feel safe to learn.
We may be the only SAFE adult in some kids lives!
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A trauma-sensitive school focuses on what the adults in the building do.
The behavior of the adults sets the tone MORE than the behavior of the students.
It is not a curriculum or lesson plan it is a mindset.
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A student’s situation does not define them.
“You don’t have a choice about being in the trauma business, but you do have a choice of what you do about it.”
~Kristin Sauers (Book -Fostering Resilient Learners)
“Either we spend time meeting children’s emotional needs by filling their cup with love or we spend time dealing with the behaviors caused from their unmet needs. Either way we spend the time.”
~ Pam Leo, Author of Connection Parenting
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“You cannot stop trauma from happening, but you can create a setting that is safe for students.” ~Kristin Souers & Pete Hall
(Relationship, Responsibility, & Regulation)
Remember that every behavior is an expression of NEED.
The Power of Seven Seconds! How we greet our students when we first see them – our facial expressions, words, gestures, tone of voice, contact, level of enthusiasm—those things matter!
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Goals
Build positive classroom community.
Helps students build self-awareness.
Help students build new relationships.
Teach students to act with kindness & empathy.
Students feel calm, safe, & connected.
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mtss
Tier 1 - Whole School/ Whole Class
“Rules without relationships inspire rebellion.” ~Josh McDowell
Tier 2 - Small Group (More intentional)
Kagan Strategies
Tier 3 - Intensive Interventions
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Beware of Tornadoes
Fostering Resilient Learners
A student exploding and acting out is their effort to manage the intensity of their own situation.
It is a learned tactic to avoid the truth. It is a distraction.
We, as educators, must stay focused and avoid getting sucked into the tornado and taken to OZ.
Behavior is a form of communication. What are our students trying to communicate to us?
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self-Awareness.
What is the first step in JMS becoming a trauma-sensitive school?
self-concept
thoughts
feelings
emotions
body
values/passions
An unregulated adult cannot regulate an unregulated child.
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self-Awareness.
The first step in becoming a trauma-sensitive school is for us as educators to be self-aware!
self-concept
thoughts
feelings
emotions
body
values/passions
An unregulated adult cannot regulate an unregulated child.
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self-Awareness.
Becoming Self-Aware
self-concept
thoughts
feelings
emotions
body
values/passions
An unregulated adult cannot regulate an unregulated child.
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ACE’s Score
10 Categories before the age of 18
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris Ted Talk
Book - The Deepest Well
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Love Language
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self-Awareness.
self-concept
thoughts
feelings
emotions
body
values/passions
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9 enneagram
Types & self care
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Every Hello makes a difference!
“Somebody’s got to be crazy about that kid. That’s number one. First, Last, & Always.”
~ Dr. Jody Carrington
Everyone needs someone who is “Light-Up Crazy” to see them.
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self-Awareness.
What are other ways to connect with our students?
self-concept
thoughts
feelings
emotions
body
values/passions
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Strategies & structures
Kagan
Envoy
PBIS
RTI
PLC
A disruption is a teaching opportunity for the teacher and a learning opportunity for the student.
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KAGAN - 4 disruptive behaviors
A B C D
Aggression
Breaking the rules
Confrontation
Disengagement
A disruption is a teaching opportunity for the teacher and a learning opportunity for the student.
When any of these basic needs cannot be fulfilled responsibly, the student resorts to disruptive behavior. ~ Dr. Spencer Kagan
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KAGAN - 7 basic needs of students
Behaviors are a form of communication - Understand the WHY
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SEL
5 Core Values of Social Emotional Learning
Social emotional learning is the process to help learners acquire necessary life skills. Those skills make up five core domains:
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THANK YOU
A teacher’s greatest superpower is
KINDNESS
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resources
The Deepest Well
Nadine Burke Harris
Fostering Resilient Learners
Kristin Souers & Pete Hall
Poor Students, Rich Teaching
Eric Jensen
Kids These Days
Jody Carrington
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