Creating Trauma-Responsive Classrooms

A workshop for administrators, educators, counselors, and therapists

The Real Impact of Trauma

  • Trauma is not what happened to you. It is the biological and physiological effects of what happened to you. Trauma changes the way the brain and body communicate, process information and experience life. For our students, trauma can show up as significant behavioral struggles, a range of learning disabilities or mental health challenges.
  • Current statistics report, “one out of every 4 children attending school has been exposed to a traumatic event that can affect learning and/or behavior.” This affects every classroom.

Why is a Trauma-Responsive Classroom Crucial?

  • Trauma causes dysregulated states within the nervous system which impede an individual’s ability to manage their emotions and learn. These states can also cause behavioral reactivity that can range from misaligned aggression to shut down. Educators need effective tools to help them successfully address the myriad of behaviors in their classroom without relying on traditional, punitive consequences that not only require an excessive expenditure of time and energy, they also compound the detrimental effects of trauma. Trauma-responsive classrooms understand how peaceful solutions develop students' capacity to calm and cope, building resilience.
  • Trauma-responsive classrooms become hubs of safety and connection, the 2 most basic human needs that must be met to prepare the brain and body for learning and healing.

🌟 What Will You Gain from This Workshop?

  • 🌟 Neurological Insights: Examine the neuroscience of how trauma affects the nervous system (brain and body), creating behavioral and learning challenges.
  • 🌟 Evidence-Based Practices: Master tools and techniques that promote emotional, physical, psychological and social well-being for educators and students simultaneously.
  • 🌟 Healing Approach: Understand how to adapt classroom practices so they have a therapeutic impact, cultivating safety and connection.
  • 🌟 Practical Applications: Return to your classroom with actionable skills and strategies for addressing nervous system regulation, development, learning and behavior without demanding more time and energy from your faculty.

testimonials

Welcoming

Welcoming, well organized, and provides clear science driven approaches that address the needs of the modern day student! Allison clearly understands the challenges faced by educators and offers rich, approachable, student focused solutions that increase a sense of empowerment, for educators and students alike.
Greg Hedler, LCSWE-RYT 500 Integrative Health Speciality at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Concise, approachable, and grounded in science and kindness

oncise, approachable, and grounded in science and kindness, the manual includes specific skills to target, engaging exercises for students to complete, clear solutions for classroom challenges, and ways to adapt the activities for different populations. This manual is an absolute game changer for the education system. It is super comprehensive and yet simple to digest.
Erik Jacobson, Ph.D.Chief Psychologist Upstate Cerebral Palsy

It is an essential tool for any classroom teacher!

“Educate 2B” is a practical guide to helping children find regulation in the classroom. This program integrates trauma research with the pillars of social emotional learning. Strategies for integration onto RTI and PBIS frameworks are provided. The lesson are easy to follow and embed in any classroom and content area.
Melissa Sadin Ed. D., M.A.T., M. Ed.Program Director, Attachment & Trauma Network

This has been a true gift.

This comprehensive program builds a true understanding of how the brain works and how today's environment - full of distractors and stress agents - impacts the classroom. As a community, it has helped us all to develop the lifelong skill of managing our emotions in a healthy way. The adults and children alike now have personalized “bag of tricks” to find focus, calm, energy, or peace throughout the day, in or outside of school.
Lorna Oates-SantosPrincipal, Somerville Elementary School, Ridgewood, NJ
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  • Trauma goes deeper than mere events—it affects our body, mind, and overall well-being. How we perceive, process, and react to the world around us is deeply intertwined with the traumas we've faced.
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