Creating a Mindful, Trauma-Sensitive Classroom
“I am now challenging you to look beyond the behavior and focus on motive. If we can identify what may be motivating students to react, […]
Resiliency in Learners
A Note to the Teacher: Fostering Resilient Learners
When thinking of how to foster resilient learning in our students, we must first understand that many children have experienced different trauma-related events. These events […]
Science Teaching 2.0: Fostering Resilient Learners
What does it mean to foster resilient learners? The authors of Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom (2016), Kristen Souers, a licensed […]
Building Brilliant Resilience in the Classroom
Every year new students come into our classroom. We often don’t know what they’ve been through or what they’ve experienced, but we are able to […]
How to Foster Resilient Learners in the Classroom
On page 7 of the book Fostering Resilient Learners, the author mentions the responsibility of a teacher “to educate every single child who enters our […]
The Importance of Fostering Resilience in Students
Nearly 40% of students in the US have been exposed to some sort of traumatic event. This is troubling because when children are exposed to […]
Fostering Student Resilience: How to Deal with Trauma in the Classroom
As teachers, we take on many, MANY roles for our students. These roles include: Role Model Learning facilitator Mentor Coach Counselor And Many More! Because […]
Resilience for Brilliance
Trauma, Tornadoes, and Teenagers The title of this section is a bit misleading. Not the trauma. Not tornadoes. No, the misleading part is the word […]
When Home Dominates School
A student with a high ACEs score is going to have difficulty. That’s a fact. How we as teachers react to that difficulty is what […]
Bouncin’ Back
The “Problem Child” We’ve all heard teachers describe their “problem” children. These are often the students that act out in class, don’t follow instructions, and […]