(HS Fry 055480 2020) Trauma-Informed & Resilience-Focused Classrooms: Quick & Easy Strategies to Improve Classroom Climate

Course overview

The new buzz in education is to be "trauma-informed." The questions on all of our minds are: "How are we supposed to do this while meeting all of the other demands in education? How do I keep up with the curriculum while teaching my students these skills?" You may think "Let's just add teaching kids how to behave to my already-impossible list of things to do." Perhaps you've thought, "Here we go again... another excuse for kids to avoid consequences; schools care more about suspension rates than they do the sanity of their own teachers." Imagine adding strategies that take only a few minutes from your lesson plan and can benefit not only your entire class, but individual challenging students and, just as importantly, you as an educator? What if you could focus on teaching your curriculum while providing emotional safety and growth for ALL of your students instead of only one at a time? Imagine having a toolbox of strategies that you can use the next day without having to use your own money and time to find these activities. Watch Theresa Fry in this recording and learn how a trauma-informed, resilience-focused approach will provide emotional safety & growth for all your students. By addressing their basic needs, you will increase their ability to self-regulate, decrease challenging behaviors, and simultaneously make your job notably easier. This positive approach will enable your students to learn to help themselves, leaving everyone feeling empowered, calm and ready to learn.