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…
Pulling the Goddess
For the holidays, I bought myself a couple of oracle[1] decks, Seasons of the Witch, Beltane Oracle, and the Wisdom of Hafiz. They're quite different and I use them for…
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…
The Chapter Four Reminder
I recently ordered a very cool lavendar hoodie from the For Everyone Collective, a group of artists and creatives committed to transformative justice and abolition. I found For Everyone through…
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…