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Resources for Responding to Trauma and Tragedy

Guidance for supporting students who have experienced trauma or grief and for coping with violence and disasters.

January 5, 2016 Updated November 13, 2017

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Understanding Trauma鈥檚 Effects on Learning

  • : Learn about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and how they can impact a child鈥檚 developing brain and are linked to high-risk behaviors, chronic diseases, and negative health outcomes in adulthood. (The Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative, 2017)
  • : Explore the latest research on the effects trauma has on young people鈥檚 brains, and learn strategies you can use to make your classroom feel safer. (NEA Today, 2016)
  • : Examine the signs and causes of student trauma, and explore strategies for responding to and supporting students who are experiencing trauma. (Teaching Tolerance, 2016)
  • : Read about how experiences with trauma impact student learning, and review several expert suggestions on ways that educators and schools can help. (The Atlantic, 2014)
  • Helping Kids Recover From Trauma: Discover how resilience can be fostered by supportive factors in schools, and read takeaways from research. (麻豆传媒入口, 2009)

Helping Students Who Have Experienced Trauma

  • Brains in Pain Cannot Learn: Learn three ways to calm the stress response in students affected by anxiety or depression. (麻豆传媒入口, 2016)
  • 5 Ways to Help Students in Trauma: Read strategies and tips for creating a calming classroom environment that can help troubled students learn. (麻豆传媒入口, 2016)
  • Helping Students Who Have Experienced Trauma: Explore seven strategies you can use in your classroom to help support and empower students in trauma. (麻豆传媒入口, 2016)
  • : Take a look at four strategies that educators can use to build trust with students, especially vulnerable students who may have experienced abuse from adults. (ASCD鈥檚 Educational Leadership, 2015)
  • : Examine five -based suggestions (recognizing, understanding, labeling, expressing, and regulating emotions) for helping adults and children cope with the aftermath of school violence or other experiences with trauma. (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
  • : Discover games, videos, and other activities to help children endure traumatic experiences. (Sesame Street in Communities)

School-Wide Approaches to Addressing Trauma

  • Trauma-Informed Practices Benefit All Students: Learn how utilizing school-wide trauma-informed practices can benefit the entire school community, including helping all students learn coping skills and self-efficacy. (麻豆传媒入口, 2017)
  • : Discover best practices, strategies, and tips your school can employ to foster safe, calming, and supportive learning spaces. (NEA Today, 2016)
  • : Explore the latest proven strategies that can help your school make a difference in the lives of students. This guide includes a rich collection of additional resources. (Education Week, 2016)
  • It鈥檚 Not What鈥檚 Wrong With the Children, It鈥檚 What鈥檚 Happened to Them: Find a list of school-based alternatives to zero-tolerance policies that can help nurture resilience in youths who have experienced adversity. (麻豆传媒入口, 2015)
  • : Understand the causes of trauma, discover how trauma manifests in schools, and learn about a framework that can help educators develop trauma-sensitive schools. (Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative/Massachusetts Advocates for Children, 2013)

Strategies for Coping With Violence and Disaster

  • Helping Students Cope in a Violent World: Explore 10 useful and practical strategies for discussing violence in the classroom, fostering student coping skills, and helping students make sense of violence. (麻豆传媒入口, 2016)
  • : Learn how educators and parents can help protect children and themselves from the effects of vicarious trauma. The linked article 鈥溾澛爄s also worth reading. (Greater Good, 2013)

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