Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools to Improve Learning: A Response to Intervention (RtI) Model - Wisconsin

"Professional educators know that many students face challenges in their personal lives that adversely affect their learning in school. Unfortunately, many children have been traumatized by directly or vicariously experiencing violence, homelessness, loss (or fear of loss) of loved ones, or other kinds of trauma. Trauma changes people. Just as a physical assault on the body can cause bodily impairment, psychological trauma can result in a mental injury that impacts such things as a child's ability to regulate emotions, attend to classroom activities, and/or achieve normal developmental milestones...."

http://sspw.dpi.wi.gov/sspw_mhtrauma

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