For the past six months, I have been working with Jeff Ikler, a professional podcaster, and Dr. Chris Mason, executive director of the Center for Educational Improvement, to find ways to encourage schools to create trauma-informed practices to meet the unmet needs of their staff and students.
We are pleased to announce that our series on alleviating student trauma is officially launched. You can access the available episodes on an ongoing basis — including your own! — at Trauma in Schools. We will publish two episodes a week for the next five weeks. Thereafter, we’ll publish one episode a week, ending up with some 40ish episodes by next May.
Share the good news! All of our collective hard work won’t matter if we can’t capture the ears of the public and move its many stakeholders to action. So please, copy and share the following link with your friends, colleagues, and network — Trauma in Schools — and encourage them to subscribe wherever they listen to podcasts. The first episode provides a nice overview of the series. To introduce the series to your network, explain that:
"Cultivating Resilience is a podcast series that showcases thought leaders, school leaders, and mental health practitioners who are working to lessen the devastating impact of trauma that students bring with them through the schoolhouse doors."
Listen to the series! You can listen in two ways:
Go to Trauma in Schools, and you’ll see all the available episodes displayed. Click on the episode you want to listen to. The audio player is near the top of the blog page. The benefit of listening here is the accompanying blog post, which provides useful info on the guest, the episode, and some highlight clips.
Go to your favorite podcast station: Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon, Stitcher etc. Find the “Browse” or “Search” button and type in “Cultivating Resilience - A Whole Community Approach to Alleviating Trauma in Schools.” The benefit of going to a podcast station is that you can easily subscribe to the series, and rate and review it. Just follow the directions at whatever site you choose. Note: High ratings nourish the algorithmic gods, which puts our series in front of additional listeners.
Again, please subscribe, listen, and share! We are hopeful that the foundation we have laid will be well received and give space for more episodes moving forward to continue raising awareness around how we can effectively address many challenges within our education system through a trauma-informed approach.
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