How Trauma-Informed Are We, Really? [ascd.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 9/29/206:32 AM

By Paul Gorski, Educational Leadership, October 2020

"I have a story for you," Shari said as she jogged toward me.

I had spent the day with her high school's administrative team discussing an equity assessment they hoped to conduct.

A major challenge at this school, as in many schools, was the leadership team's habit of embracing shiny new program after shiny new program rather than addressing deep institutional problems. Their latest shiny new program was trauma-informed education. That August, teachers attended two days of trauma-informed training. Counselors learned to identify students who carry the impact of trauma to school. It was a core focus for the school year.

"I'm a queer Black woman. Transgender," Shari said. As far as she knew, she was the only out transgender student at her school.

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