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…
Time to overthink 2022
Just kidding, but it IS the time of year to look back, reflect, and learn. Nedra Tawwab posted a list of things to consider as a yearly wrap and I…
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…