Positive relationships with caring adults can help buffer students from the effects of trauma and chronic stress, making trauma-informed schools 'healing places.' (MindShiftKQED)
that adverse childhood experiences like poverty, neglect, and exposure to violence affect children's brains and may have a negative impact on learning and behavior.
"For me being trauma-informed has so much to do with mindset, accepting that different people come into a school setting with incredibly varied life experiences," said Lindsey Minder, a second grade teacher profiled in anintroducing trauma-informed practices."Some of those life experiences may be traumatic. And the way in which that plays out in my particular classroom could look a number of ways.
While dealing with all the issues kids bring to school can be overwhelming for teachers, the upside is that they areon students' lives. Positive relationships with caring adults can help buffer students from the effects of trauma and chronic stress, making trauma-informed schools"healing places." "If you're fearful, if you're anxious, if you're distracted about something that's happened to you, you literally can't learn. Your brain shuts down," said Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, president and CEO of the."So it's essential to give kids social and emotional tools that allow students to recover from the challenges that they have experienced.
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