Safe and Supportive School Resources

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Doing the Nearly Impossible: Teaching When the World Delivers Fear

Actionable Transformative Tools

Because professional learning is only as powerful as it is practical and applicable, we have created and curated concrete tools, strategies, and frameworks that educators can implement with ease.

Trusting Relationships

• Kernels of Practice for SEL. (PDF)

• Relationships Social Emotional Learning in the Classroom (PDF)

• The influence of teacher and peer relationships on students' classroom engagement (PDF)

• “Teacher Child Relationships and Children’s Success in the First years of School”,  Pianta and Stuhlman,  School Psychology Review, 2004, Number 33, Volume 3 

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A Trauma-Sensitive Lens

• “Helping Traumatized Children Learn, Vol 1”, Cole et al. Massachusetts Advocates for Children, Cambridge, Ma. 

• Neuro-Biology: “Wounds That Won’t Heal”  

• Prevalence:  Ace Study  

• Whole Child “The Evidence Base for How We Learn”   

• Videos  https://traumasensitiveschools.org/videos/  

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School Cultural Change

• “Helping traumatized Children Learn, Vol 2”, Cole et al,  Massachusetts Advocates for Children, Cambridge Mass. 

• “The Water of Systems Change” 

• “Change Theory, A Force for School Improvement”, Fullen, M.  2006, Center for Strategic Education, Paper Number 157 

• “Leading Change, Why Transformational Efforts Fail” Kotter, J.,  Harvard Business review, March-April, 1995 

• Videos:  https://traumasensitiveschools.org/videos/  

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Self-Care

• Teacher Stress and Health (PDF)

• Secondary Trauma  

• Professional Quality of Life Scale