Building TraumaSensitive Schools: Your Guide to Creating Safe, Supportive Learning Environments for All Students

FREE WEBINARHelp for Stressed Educators During COVID19: Noticing and Meeting Teacher Needs as Schools ReopenIn the United States, at least one in four youth experiences trauma severe enough to negatively affect their school success.* Give hope and help to these students with this readerfriendly howto guide, your springboard for building responsive, traumasensitive preK12 schools.Drawing on her extensive experience as a school counselor, trainer, and mother, trauma expert Jen Alexander delivers a comprehensive framework for building a safe, supportive school environment that helps all students learn and thrive. Youll start with an evidencebased introduction to the profound impact of trauma on a childs development, attachment, and behavior. Then youll get an effective multitier system of support (MTSS) for developing a traumasensitive learning environment, including both universal strategies (Tier 1) and more intensive interventions (Tier 2 and Tier 3) for students who need more support. Compelling anecdotes and sample scripts illuminate challenges and solutions, and the included forms and worksheets are valuable tools for helping educators build the mindset and skills necessary for becoming traumasensitive. With this engaging, highly practical guide to what works and why, your school team will gain insights and develop action plans that make a real difference in the lives of all kids, including our most vulnerable youth.DISCOVER HOW TO: make five key shifts in the way you view and approach students, so that youre better equipped to support them work together to prioritize resilience by actively putting relationships first in your school implement universal instructional strategies that foster safety, connection, regulation, and learning for all students use special supports, supplemental instruction, and coaching when universal strategies arent enough collaborate effectively with families and colleagues to meet each students needs incorporate restorative discipline practices that focus on restitution, not retribution create a personalized selfcare plan to promote wellness and reduce the effects of jobrelated stressPRACTICAL MATERIALS: Creative activities for teachers, powerful case stories, sample dialogues and scripts for educators and counselors, reflection and brainstorming worksheets, downloadable forms, and templates and handouts for use with students.Build resilience by helping all students Feel safe Be connected Get regulated LearnDiscover the NEW ebook from Jen Alexander: Supporting Students and Staff After COVID19* National Child Traumatic Stress Network Schools Committee, 2008