Equity-centered trauma-informed education

Summary: Educators must both respond to the impact of trauma, and prevent trauma at school. Trauma-informed initiatives tend to focus on the challenging behaviors of students and ascribe them to circumstances that students are facing outside of school. This approach ignores the reality that inequity itself causes trauma, and that schools often heighten inequities when implementing trauma-informed practices that are not based in educational equity. In this fresh look at trauma-informed practice, Alex Shevrin Venet urges educators to shift equity to the center as they consider policies and professional development. Using a framework of six principles for equity-centered trauma-informed education, Venet offers practical action steps that teachers and school leaders can take from any starting point, using the resources and influence at their disposal to make shifts in practice, pedagogy, and policy. Overthrowing inequitable systems is a process, not an overnight change. But transformation is possible when educators work together, and teachers can do more than they realize from within their own classrooms.

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Physical Description: print
Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, [2024]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part I. Bringing equity to the center: Defining trauma-informed education -- Defining equity -- Part II. Shift 1: Adopt a universal approach: Trauma is more than a number -- Trauma is a lens, not a label-- Four proactive priorities for decision making -- Part III. Shift 2: Rethink your role as an educator: Build relationships rooted in equity -- Cultivate unconditional positive regard -- Make connections, respect boundaries -- Part IV. Shift 3: Move from mindset to systems change -- Support teacher wellness -- Foster professional growth -- Work toward policy change -- Part V. Shift 4: Change the world from inside your classroom: Examine the curriculum, disrupt harmful narratives -- Get to work: activism and action as healing.
Biographical or Historical Data:	Alex Shevrin Venet is an educator, professional development facilitator, and writer. She teaches in-service teachers at Antioch University and Castleton University, and undergraduate students at the Community College of Vermont. She is a former teacher/leader at an alternative therapeutic school. She lives in Winooski, Vermont.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 21, 2023).