Healing-Centered Schools: Teachers as Leaders
This resource includes slides from presentation about Healing Centered Schools, whichi provdes an overview of this concept and how to start planning for implmentation.
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Healing Through Policy: Creating Pathways to Racial Justice
Read about the initiative that supports city, county, and state governments and communities in moving from commitment to action for health, racial equity, and justice using the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation™ framework. Healing Through Policy is an initiative of the American Public Health Association, the de Beaumont Foundation, and the National Collaborative for Health Equity, in collaboration with Results for America.
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Gender Revolution
Special issue of National Geogrphic (2017) includes many articles that explore the shifting landscape of gender, including gender roles and gender identity. Includes a downloadable discussion guide for teachers and parents.
Grandma’s Experiences Leave a Mark on Your Genes
Article about how our ancestors’ experiences might change your personality, helping build anxiety or resilience by altering the epigenetic expressions of genes in the brain, and provides context around historical and generational trauma.
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Fostering Resilient Learners
This is the 2016 online version of Fostering Resilient Learners, which helps cultivate a trauma-sensitive learning environment for students across all content areas, grade levels, and educational settings.
Every Student Matters: Cultivating Belonging in the Classroom
These five strategies can help ensure that students feel they belong in your classroom.
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Dear Young Person: You Are Valued
This article from Equality Florida emphasize the need for each of us to advocate for safer schools where all young people are valued.
Developing Culturally Responsive Relationships with Your Students
This blog explores the importance of developing culturally responsive relationships with students. Culturally responsive teaching focuses on practitioners being culturally competent in order to authentically instruct students. It is important to build relationships through understanding. misunderstood
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Cycle of Risk: The Intersection of Poverty, Violence, and Trauma; 2017 report
This report presents the need for both a rapid response and a long-term approach to reducing violence. By taking a comprehensive approach, there is continued caution, so that reform does not perpetuate the very inequities and conditions that have led to violence in our communities.
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Creating a Sense of Belonging: Young People Identify Ways to Build Welcoming Environments
This brief article outlines seven concrete ways to create a school environment in which youth of color know they belong.