Pam McNall
Posted in Education, Our Voices, Trauma, Trauma Sensitive Schools
by Dr. Ryan T. Woods for Respectful Ways
When learning went online
When the threat of COVID-19 arrived, schools responded quickly. Administrators hustled, principals made announcements, and teachers developed lesson plans. In a matter of days, students were learning from home.
As any instructor knows, academic content represents just one facet of education.
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Julie Beem
Posted in Education, Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Trauma
Blog Manager’s Note: I don’t know about you, but I know that I have lost count of how many days we’ve been under orders to “shelter in place.” Although absolutely necessary, this isn’t easy, especially as more and more states make the decision to close school doors for the rest of this academic year.
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Pam McNall
Posted in ATN News, Education
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Laura Dennis
Posted in CTSS Conference, Education, Our Voices, Trauma, Trauma Sensitive Schools
A Mindfulness room gone wrong
About a month ago, I read Emma Donoghue’s novel, Akin, the story of an unlikely duo, both touched by childhood trauma: an 11-year-old boy named Michael and his great-uncle, Noah. Michael’s father–Noah’s nephew–died of an overdose, while his mother is imprisoned for a drug-related offense.
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Guest Author
Posted in Education, Our Voices, Parenting Traumatized Children, Trauma Sensitive Schools
A neuropsychologist said of my oldest son: “His brain is not organized the way the world wants it to be, so he has problems functioning. But he doesn’t have behavior problems. His brain doesn’t do those.”
My youngest son also has a brain that doesn’t fit the world he lives in,
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Guest Author
Posted in Advocacy, Education, Our Voices, Trauma, Trauma Sensitive Schools
Child trafficking: from victim to advocate
In 2019, I found myself in front of an auditorium full of school staff members from 70 Colorado school districts, speaking at a training on how to identify child trafficking. Several years earlier, my therapist had told me, “One day, you will be addressing the systems that failed you.
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Guest Author
Posted in Education, Our Voices, Trauma Sensitive Schools
A word about gender
Before I talk about boys in school, let me start by acknowledging that gender is complicated. We learn more every day about its many complexities and intricacies. We know, for example, that gender exists on a continuum. Even if we oversimplify and separate people into “boys” and “girls” and the qualities associated with each,
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Julie Beem
Posted in Book Reviews, Education, Our Voices, Trauma Sensitive Schools
As teachers and students head back to school, a flurry of inquiries has come into ATN about the “best” materials to help our schools create more trauma-informed educators. The Trauma-Sensitive School movement is still young, so in previous years I had a hard time answering that question,
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Attachment & Trauma Network
Posted in Education, Trauma Sensitive Schools, Webinar
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Laura Dennis
Posted in Education, Events, Our Voices, Trauma Sensitive Schools
I don’t think this the most beautifully written post I’ve ever created. I do think it might be one of the most important.
Here’s why.
I am the most exhausted and energized I have been in a very long time!
Exhausted because…
I flew into Washington,
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