Trauma is the throughline
Trauma-responsivity is the throughline for multiple types of responsive, integrative teaching (ex. race & ethnicity, gender & sexuality, ability, neurodiversity, and so on). It includes and embraces all of these…
Educational trauma? What’s the difference?
How do we tell the difference between educational trauma and other kinds of trauma? (this is an expansion on one of the Commonly Asked Questions from an earlier post) “How…
Commonly Asked Questions
In Building a Trauma-Responsive Educational Practice: Lessons from a Corrections Classroom (2022), I introduce alternative points of entry into trauma work (including teaching and learning), the Trauma-Responsive Framework, rediscovering joy…
Trauma, Language, and Learning
"Building a Trauma-Responsive Educational Practice: Lessons from a Corrections Classroom," is the first book to specifically address the impacts of trauma on adult learning, and comes from my experience working…
Finding the Lightbulb
When I wrote "Building a Trauma-Responsive Educational Practice: Lessons from a Corrections Classroom" I didn't know what would happen next. I didn't realize I would spend the rest of my…