When Schools Cause Trauma [Tolerance.org]

Teaching Tolerance Issue 62, Summer 2019, By Carrie Gaffney

Increasingly, we are seeing pushes for trauma-sensitive and trauma-informed schools. We know that traumatic stress can have long-term health effects on developing brains and, in response, districts across the United States are acknowledging the role that trauma plays in students’ achievement opportunities. But how well are districts defining trauma? And how well do educators understand what it really means to practice trauma-informed pedagogy?

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