Foundational awareness, environment design, relationship-building, and understanding behavior through a trauma lens.
2) Regulation Strategies for the Classroom
Co-regulation techniques, teaching self-regulation, embedding regulation into daily instruction, and knowing when something is beyond the teacher's scope.
3) Trauma Informed Assessment and Academic Support
How trauma affects memory, attention, executive function, and learning — and what that means for assessment design, feedback, grading, and supporting chronically behind students.
4) Equity, Identity and Trauma: Teaching the Whole Child
How race, culture, poverty, foster care, disability, immigration status, and LGBTQ+ identity intersect with trauma — and why trauma-informed practice must also be equity-informed.
5) The Trauma Informed Teacher: Protecting Your Own Well-Being
Secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, sustainable boundaries, and building a practice that doesn't deplete you.