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Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Can Experience Traumatic Stress: A Fact Sheet for Parents and Caregivers

This handout offers parents and caregivers information about how children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) experience traumatic stress. This fact sheet provides information on the intersection of IDD, trauma, and mental wellness; what intellectual and developmental disabilities are; how trauma might impact children with IDD; why children with IDD are at higher risk for trauma exposure; and how trauma service providers should partner with parents and caregivers. For more information on support, check out the handout, Choosing Trauma Informed Care for Children with Intellectual Disabilities, from NCTSN.

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Applying Universal Design for Learning Supports Inclusive Education

Ensuring education is inclusive of young people with diverse needs and abilities takes intentional practice; UDL can help educators design experiences that benefit all students. This article provides some introductory examples of UDL practices that can be used in a variety of settings. This is not an exhaustive list but rather a starting point, because there is so much more we can do to design learning experiences that are more inclusive and equitable.

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Branching Minds MTSS educational technology platform

Branching Minds is a K-12 educational technology platform that was designed to support schools in doing the work of MTSS and to make personalized learning sustainable for schools and teachers. This site has lots of data, resources and actionable insights on how to provide the necessary instruction to meet the unique learning needs, strengths, and challenges of each student. This platform streamlines the work of MTSS and provides guidance to personalize support for students so educators have more time and energy to do the inherently personal and personalized work of building positive student-teacher relationships.

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Equity Matters: Confronting Implicit Bias

This webinar delves into implicit biases—the subconscious biases we all have that influence how we respond to others. To create equitable classrooms, educators must acknowledge their own biases and take steps to confront them. Better understand what implicit bias is and how it affects school climate as well as ways to confront implicit bias within ourselves and help students to do likewise.

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Every Student Matters: Cultivating Belonging in the Classroom

This educator discusses how if students feel anxious socially, they will not be open to taking academic risks, so building a culture of belonging has become his greatest priority. He clarifies what he means by “belonging;” it’s not about “fitting in”—students’ individuality and uniqueness should always be valued. Belonging in the classroom means ensuring that all students feel welcomed, comfortable, and part of the school family. These five strategies can help ensure that students feel they belong in your classroom. 

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The Spectrum of Trauma-Savvy Practice (worksheet)

When examining building and district-wide practices, it is common for ratings in all four of the categories. The goal of this worksheet is to identify both your areas of strength as well as those areas still in need of improvement. As you
reflect on each category and definition, there is a space provided to allow you to document your current practices either as an individual, building, or district with the ultimate goal of becoming trauma-invested.

The book, Fostering Resilient Learners, presents case studies, research, stories, and practical, easy-to-implement strategies to help students living with trauma thrive in the classroom. The book includes strategies to help education professionals build strong relationships and create a safe space to enable students to learn at high levels, and adopt a strengths-based approach that helps professionals recalibrate how destructive student behaviors are viewed and to perceive what students need to break negative cycles. Check out their website for lots more information. www.fosteringresilientlearners.org

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Cultivating Resilience in Schools Toolkit

The Cultivating Resilience in Schools toolkit is intended to be used by school-based leadership teams, which include representation across all areas and key collaborators, to establish systems and structures for building resilient schools and learning communities. It should be used in consideration of contextual, cultural, and social factors unique to each organization and everyone within the organization. Its comprehensive approach help makes connections and authentic relationships among educators, students and families, and promote positive school climate and culture, with an emphasis on classroom culture, safety and wellness. 

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Speak Up at School: How to Implement

This guidebook from Learning for Justice offers tools and strategies to prepare you to speak up against prejudice, bias and stereotypes at school. Because whoever it is, and wherever you are, there are ways to be ready for such moments, ways to make sure that you aren’t caught tongue-tied, ways to make sure that you don’t let hate have the last word. Check out the accompanying instructional video and guide on how to implement the curriculum in classrooms for grades 6th through 12th.

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Power of Identity: Facilitating Identity Circles

The Power of Identity presents materials on culturally responsive supervision from the first of a three‐part series designed for supervisors in teacher education. This series was developed in partnership with Dr. Tanisha Brandon‐Felder, a consultant in professional development on equity pedagogy. This document contains handouts, planning tools, readings, facilitation video about Identity Circles, and other materials to provide facilitators with a scaffolded experience. The materials focus on experiential understanding of the power of identity and to imagine the possibilities when teachers truly know their students. 

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