By Tony Mixon
PANAMA CITY — Faculty members from Northside Elementary recently piloted a new program called the Trauma Sensitive Classrooms Project and it is a part of the Hurricane Michael long-term recovery plan.
Dr. Elizabeth Connors of Yale University and Scott Sevin and Elizabeth Granzow of 7-Dippity Inc. coordinated the training on Sunday. Volunteers from other districts in Florida trained in trauma-informed strategies also made the trip to Bay County.
The teachers in Bay County have been reporting behavior that’s different from what they have seen in the past. According to Bay District Schools, teachers who have great command of the classroom are now having difficulties with the strategies that have worked before.
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Once Dr. Connors and the volunteers for the program training arrived Sunday, they were briefed on the situation the teachers are dealing with post-storm.
Monday was the first day of training for the teachers at Northside.
“We worked on different strategies like peaceful time and distinguishing space in the classroom for that,” said Dr. Elizabeth Connors, Assistant Professor at Yale University. “Calm down corner is one example where they (students) can go and relax.”
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