My Grandmother's Hands

Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

Black, Brown, Bruised

2022 PROSE Award FinalistDrawing on narratives from hundreds of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals, Ebony Omotola McGee examines the experiences of un...

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others - The Trauma Stewardship Institute

A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll taken on those working to make the world a better place. We [...]

SAMHSA - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

SAMHSA is inviting the public to submit formal comments on the 42 CFR Part 8 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM).

Trauma-Informed Pedagogy (TIP)

This page offers definitions and context for what trauma-informed pedagogies and their principles are, and why considering the effects of trauma and pedagogies responsive to them might be useful. It also offers guidance on how to translate principles into teaching practice, navigate potentially charged course content, and/or navigate an ongoing, large-scale traumatic event that is likely impacting students.

Types of Trauma Teaching Tools

Individuals may experience disaster- or conflict-based trauma from a single occurrence (natural disaster, loss of a loved one) or a prolonged occurrence (war, displacement, military service). Disaster- and conflict-based traumas may result in feelings of hypervigilance, anxiety, anger, guilt, loss of feelings of safety, loss of faith, feeling out of touch, or destabilized worldviews.

Trauma-informed Pedagogy

What is trauma? "Individual trauma results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life-threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual's functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being" (SAMSA, 2022, March).

Trauma-Informed Pedagogy Guide | CTRL Faculty Resources

The purpose of this guide is to equip you with tools and best practices for incorporating trauma-informed pedagogy into your classroom. Given the events of the past few years, including the COVID-19 pandemic, it is especially important for faculty to recognize how they can support themselves and their students who might be struggling due to trauma.

Trauma-Informed Pedagogy

This Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centered pedagogies module is responsive to broad experiences of individual and community trauma in relation to academic settings, teaching, and learning. While the topics discussed herein vary in breadth and depth, the goal is to provide language, guidelines, frameworks, tools, and supportive resources to support faculty members and students as they navigate the complex layers of trauma and healing.

The Institute on Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care (ITTIC)

The Institute on Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care (ITTIC) was started at the University at Buffalo in 2012 by Research Professor Thomas Nochajski and Clinical Professor Susan Green out of the need for additional trauma-related services, training and support within the University and community at large.

Trauma-Informed Pedagogy

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The UDL Guidelines

The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.

Designing for Care

Maha Bali and Mia Zamora Intentionally Equitable Hospitality (IEH) is a facilitation praxis that was first developed by the co-directors and members of the grass-roots movement called Virtually Connecting (Bali, Caines, Hogue, DeWaard & Friedrich, 2019).

Community Building - OneHE

Equity Unbound has been working with OneHE to create and curate a bank of free resources that can help educators to create equitable, caring, and inclusive communities that support learning. In this learning path, the team helps you to navigate those resources-for online, face-to-face (f2f), or hybrid interactions-by picking out successful strategies and techniques that can be used at various points throughout a course.

ASCN Workshop - Dec 2022

Guided Discussion on Equity and Care Maha Bali, PhD @bali_maha Center for Learning & Teaching, American University in Cairo, Virtually Connecting & Equity Unbound ASCN, December 2022

Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators

Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators [Aguilar, Elena] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators

Episode 127: Coaching Emotions: Anger - Bright Morning

Anger is a part of all of our lives. It has the potential to be a catalyst for change, an insight into our needs, and a source of wisdom. Yet too often it's thought of as a "bad" emotion and avoided at all costs.

‎Teachers on Fire: 140 - Elena Aguilar: Coaching, Equity, and Resilience on Apple Podcasts

ELENA AGUILAR is an accomplished presenter, speaker, and author. She strives to help leaders learn, be their best selves, and serve students well. In 2018, Elena published Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators, and she will soon release Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change...

Episode 128: Coaching Emotions: Sadness - Bright Morning

There is loss inherent in change regardless of the size or the amount of that change. If this school year was a magical one, or your most challenging yet, the end of the year means loss in some form. The question for us to consider is, how can we honor and learn from that loss?

Are you working with someone who is struggling? - Bright Morning

Many educators are returning from the break feeling refreshed, empowered, and energized. You can continue cultivating and coaching those joyful emotions. This will help. Some educators are returning from the break feeling stressed, sad, or fearful. You might be tempted to smother those feelings by exuding positivity and repeating sentiments like, "it's all going to be okay!"

Growth Mindset Messages from Instructors Improve Academic Performance Among First-Generation College Students | CBE-Life Sciences Education

First-generation (FG) college students (i.e., those for whom neither parent/guardian obtained a bachelor's degree) experience more barriers in college, compared with continuing-generation students. These barriers are compounded by subtle messages from instructors that convey the idea that natural talent is necessary for success in scientific fields.

From Deficit to Asset Framing: How Shifting Faculty Mindset Framing Can Positively Affect Student Motivation and Belonging

Student's cultural wealth and faculty mindset framing are often overlooked aspects of educational practice that if addressed, could lead to meaningful change and academic success of students. To shift toward ...

https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/2445/2024/03/White-Olson-Canning-2024.pdf

Perinatal programming of emotional brain circuits: an integrative view from systems to molecules

Environmental influences such as perinatal stress have been shown to program the developing organism to adapt brain and behavioral functions to cope with daily life challenges.

https://www.das.nh.gov/wellness/docs/percieved%20stress%20scale.pdf

First-Day Info Sheets: A Tool to Prompt Semester-Long Inclusive Teaching - PubMed

What faculty do and say on the first day of class is crucial to establishing and maintaining an inclusive learning environment for the duration of the semester. First-day information sheets ("info sheets") are commonly used by instructors. By making simple modifications to this tool, we can gather m ...