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If you’ve got some time on you r hands and a yearning for school district data, check out   a new tool   announced Monday by the California Department of Education that tracks how well districts and schools have done from 2012 to 2014...

OurSOLES (Our Students of Leadership ~ Empowerment ~ Service) high school students from the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego, CA, led an interactive, hour-long trauma-informed presentation for Diego Valley and Diego Springs Public Charter School educators, tutors, school administration and staff last August 14, 2015.

Dear ACEs Connection Friends,    We are holding the first of (hopefully) many chat discussions on the topic of ACEs in Education. The chat discussion is scheduled for September 3rd at 4 pm central time.  Please join the...

  Common Sense   Millions of injured children whose pleas are not being heard are waiting at the intersection of the  “Defending Childhood” Report  from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Congress’s rewrite...

Greetings!   As a clinical and forensic psychologist and P16 educator, I am very concerned about the ACEs in education. I believe Educational Trauma is the "inadvertent perpetration and perpetuation of victimization by educational systems against...

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"As much as 20% of the gap in test scores could be explained by maturational lags in the frontal and temporal lobes. ...  The influence of poverty on children’s learning and achievement is mediated by structural brain development. To avoid...

Two-and-a-half years ago, a school administrator confronted District of Columbia Councilmember David Grosso with a stark and surprising reality when he visited the Walker-Jones Education Campus to learn about a literacy intervention program. At the...

PA BUDGET VETOED!  Another chance at 11th hour. Help bring a national spotlight to create awareness and get action on childhood trauma. Yes, we still have a chance -- amazing ! -- to have the General Assembly explicitly acknowledge the impact of...

Webinars that address integrating trauma-informed and resilience-building practices in schools. If you recommend any others besides those listed here, please leave a comment with a link and/or information.

Online tutorials about adverse childhood experience, neurobiology of toxic stress and how children's learning is affected by trauma. If you recommend any others besides those listed here, please leave a comment in this blog post with a link and/or information.