When Schools Meet Trauma With Understanding, Not Discipline (npr.org)
Crocker College Prep is now one of five New Orleans charter schools in a collective to become more trauma-informed. That means Crocker aims to account for the social, emotional and behavioral needs of all students, and their lives outside of school. The Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies found that kids in New Orleans screen positive for post-traumatic stress disorder at more than three times the national rate . The institute also found that up to half of all kids have dealt with homicide...