By Mary Ann Wolf, Image: WRAL, WRAL, February 8, 2022
As we continue our focus on the whole child and student mental health, it is important for us to consider how a child’s experiences affect their brain and their behavior. When I think back to teaching two decades ago, the research about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) had not yet come out.
I remember some of the behavioral challenges. I often wonder about how I may have been able to support my students differently and more effectively if I knew more about ACEs and some of the effects on the brain and behavior that they caused.
Many children in our classrooms and adults that we know experience or have experienced ACEs in their daily lives. ACEs include experiencing a potentially traumatic event, like abuse or neglect, or living with a caregiver with a mental illness or substance abuse problem.
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