In 2017, ATN released an audio summit containing interviews of leading educators nationwide. Julie Beem interviewed Dr. Susan Craig. Listen to Dr. Craig explain the specific challenges children with trauma histories struggle with during the middle school years. She provides specific strategies, from her book, Trauma Sensitive Schools – The Adolescent Years, for teachers working with children with trauma in the middle years. Dr. Craig addresses the importance of a sense of safety and connection as the climate of the school, creating positive culture within peer groups, and the ways to structure the school to allow for more relationship building.
Her presentation is shared and broken down into 4 parts.
Part 1
Dr. Craig talks about how she got introduced to this work. She says, “Teachers seem to be desperate to try to unlink what it is about children who are trying their best but continually fall apart.” Listen to learn how these children present in the classroom.
