TRA-5300: Trauma-Informed Strategies for Educational Environments

Simmons, D. (2020). Healing Black Students’ Pain: If schools aren’t addressing racism, they aren’t fully addressing trauma. Educational Leadership, 78(2), 80–81.
The author presents the need for educators to acknowledge the racism-related trauma of African American students, and to effectively teach students how to mitigate racial trauma.

Gorski, P. (2020). How trauma-informed are we, really? To fully support students, schools must attend to the trauma that occurs within their own institutional cultures. Educational Leadership, 78(2), 14–19.
This article points out aspects of institutional culture and school policies which can convey traumatizing messages to students.

Minahan, J. (2019). Tackling negative thinking in the classroom: Helping anxious students change their negative thinking patterns can reduce stress and improve their performance. Phi Delta Kappan, 101(3), 26.
The author provides strategies for helping students overcome negative thinking.

Terrasi, S., & de Galarce, P. C. (2017). Trauma and learning in America’s classrooms. Phi Delta Kappan, 98(6), 35–41.
The authors describe how trauma presents in schools and strategies for creating a safe supportive environment for students.