Why Our Trauma-Informed Teaching Must Be More Culturally Responsive [edsurge.com]
By Helen Thomas, EdSurge, October 8, 2021 Years ago, before I became an educator, I took a contemporary Native American studies course as one of my first college classes. For the final research assignment, I choose to explore the disproportionate rates of suicide among Native American youth—an issue that impacts nearly all tribal communities, including my own, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. From that assignment I learned that understanding trauma can help us better address complex behavioral...