The Role of Law and Courts in Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools: The heart of the trauma-sensitive schools movement is the important work educators do in classrooms and school buildings to create learning environments where all students can feel safe and supported.

October 29, 2021 | 5:00 – 6:00 pm EST

Multisystem Youth: How we can understand the interplay of trauma and intersectional identity to improve outcomes for our most vulnerable youth.

March 19, 20215:00pm–6:00pm

Sal Terrasi, LIfTS Director, along with Kellie Jones, Director of Bilingual Education for the Brockton Public Schools, were the featured speakers at the October 26, 2020 Quarterly Meeting of the English Learners Research Alliance.

The Alliance focuses on issues relevant to English learners, and is composed of department of education representatives from the Northeast United States and various territories. In attendance were administrators from the Massachusetts…

As part of Lesley University’s ongoing commitment to the development of safe and supportive schools, and equity in education, the Lesley Institute for Trauma Sensitivity (LIfTS) conducts two residencies annually, featuring a guest speaker on a topic of trauma and learning, free and open to the public. The October 2020 remote residency speaker is Dr. Nicole Christian-Brathwaite.

You're invited to join MDC for a webinar, Trauma, Schools,Learning Differences, and Race in 2020 on October 8th, 2020 from 1 -2:30 PM. The webinar will include two brief presentations and a Q&A period discussing the impact of trauma in education with special attention to students with diagnosed or undiagnosed learning differences who are people of color or are from low-income families. This webinar is the first in a three-part webinar series as part of the Learning for Equity: A Network for Solutions -North Carolina (LENS-NC) network.