Navigating Trauma — for Teachers and Learners
A look at the trauma-responsive strategies that can help both students and adults — and can an effective trauma response lead to better, more just schools
Harvard University
Legal Resources for Trans Youth
Co-authored with the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the Trans Youth Handbook is a legal resource guide that covers the rights of trans youth across such a wide spectrum of situations, including identity documents, school, health care, non-affirming care environments, and work.
Implicit Association Test
IAT) measures attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable to report. The IAT may be especially interesting if it shows that you have an implicit attitude that you did not know about.
Identity Project
This intervention targets adolescents’ ethnic-racial identity development. The Identity Project curriculum was designed to provide adolescents of any ethnic-racial background with tools and strategies that help them explore and understand their constantly evolving identity in relation to their race and ethnicity.
The Case for Strong Family and Community Engagement in Schools
Article about K–12 research (2023) on benefits of family-school partnership and engagment and provides strategies for putting effective partnership into practice.
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Tackling Unhealed Trauma: A guide to healing-centered engagement
Key insights from Shawn Ginwright’s social-emotional learning approach that equips educators, administrators, youth workers, caregivers, and students with culturally appropriate techniques to promote healing, self-esteem, and well-being, and also creates positive conditions for academic achievement.
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Helping Teachers Manage the Weight of Trauma: Understanding and mitigating the effects of secondary traumatic stress for educators
Teachers, counselors, and administrators may recognize the cumulative stressors that they face, but they don’t always realize that their symptoms are a common reaction to working with traumatized children. This article and compiled resources help educators and leaders navigate secondary traumatic stress and burn-out in school staff.
Creating a Relationship Map
Use this Google doc to create a tool to start the Establishment, Maintaining, Restoring (EMR) Phase with students. EMR is a specific framework for understanding student-teacher relationships in which three dimensions of relationships are highlighted: establishing the relationship through positive interactions, maintaining the relationship with continued support and encouragement, and restoring the relationships as needed.
