Trauma-Sensitive Schools – A Principal’s Thoughts
I became the Director of Education at St. Anne Institute in September of 2015 after a thirty-five year career as a teacher and administrator in public education. In October of that year, I reached out to The Attachment & Trauma Network (ATN) for some Trauma-Sensitive Schools training, and Dr. Sadin and her team came to […]
Finding Hope for Resilience and Recovery – Dr. Melissa Sadin
One June 6, Dr. Melissa Sadin spoke to Team R&R on the topic, Finding Hope for Resilience and Recovery. Dr. Sadin is a published author, an educational consultant, and an advocate for trauma informed schools. She is a life long educator, adoptive parent and long time friend of ATN. Listen or watch Dr. Sadin speak […]
Part 4: What Do We Do With Kids Who Need More? – an interview with Jen Alexander
In 2017, ATN released an audio summit containing interviews of leading educators nationwide. Julie Beem, ATN’s Executive Director interviewed Jen Alexander, an experienced trauma-informed educator, school counselor, expert on developmental trauma, global speaker, and consultant. Jen is also the author of Building Trauma-Sensitive Schools and Supporting Students and Staff After COVID-19. Her passion is helping […]
Part 3: What Should Educators Do to Make Their Schools Trauma Sensitive? – an interview with Jen Alexander
In 2017, ATN released an audio summit containing interviews of leading educators nationwide. Julie Beem, ATN’s Executive Director interviewed Jen Alexander, an experienced trauma-informed educator, school counselor, expert on developmental trauma, global speaker, and consultant. Jen is also the author of Building Trauma-Sensitive Schools and Supporting Students and Staff After COVID-19. Her passion is helping […]
Part 2: What is Complex Trauma? – an interview with Jen Alexander
In 2017, ATN released an audio summit containing interviews of leading educators nationwide. Julie Beem, ATN’s Executive Director interviewed Jen Alexander, an experienced trauma-informed educator, school counselor, expert on developmental trauma, global speaker, and consultant. Jen is also the author of Building Trauma-Sensitive Schools and Supporting Students and Staff After COVID-19. Her passion is helping […]
Book Study – Atlas of the Heart
Number one New York Times best seller In her latest book, Brené Brown writes, “If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and to be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is the framework for meaningful […]
Part 1: Why Do We Need Trauma Sensitive Schools? – an interview with Jen Alexander
In 2017, ATN released an audio summit containing interviews of leading educators nationwide. Julie Beem, ATN’s Executive Director interviewed Jen Alexander, an experienced trauma-informed educator, school counselor, expert on developmental trauma, global speaker, and consultant. Jen is also the author of Building Trauma-Sensitive Schools and Supporting Students and Staff After COVID-19. Her passion is helping […]
What Exactly is a Trauma-Informed Classroom?
Do people ask you to explain what a trauma-sensitive or trauma-informed classroom looks like? This interview is a few years old, but gives very pertinent and direct answers to this question. Julie (Simmons) Henderson and Ilene Pawlek are veteran elementary public school educators who offer up their wisdom in this ATN Journal article. What’s a Trauma-Sensitive […]
Just Say No to Teacher Burnout
Before we dive into the topic of teacher burnout, take a minute to think of the first five words you would use to describe the school year so far. I bet they include things like: Crazy Angry Chaotic Frustrating Distant Stressful Exhausting Isolated Challenging Traumatic Desperate Disturbing Out of control Unreal Teacher burnout: the risks […]