Patricia Benitez Hemans is a former secondary educator who is currently completing a Ph.D. in education studies at the University of California, San Diego. Since trauma is so prevalent and has so many ...

Traumatic experiences can have ripple effects that permeate across many aspects of people's lives. For students, adverse childhood experiences have been shown to impact attention, memory, language ...

One in four students in Rockford Public Schools have experienced a traumatic event and two out of three have been exposed to a violence. If students are to reach their full potential, all barriers to ...

LA GRANDE — Eastern Oregon University’s new Trauma in Educational Communities Certificate responds to increased isolation, illness and financial hardship many families face. EOU opened the certificate ...

When students at Mercer County Intermediate School returned to in-person learning during the 2021-2022 school year, school counselor Amy Riley noticed heightened anxiety among the third through fifth ...

Between 85-89% of college students have experienced some form of trauma in their lifetime, significantly impacting their academic performance, mental health, and overall well-being. The compounding ...

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Trauma-informed teaching cannot be simplified to cookie-cutter practices. Take this example: a teacher worked with a student to develop a silent signal that he could use when he needed extra breaks ...

All young people have experienced loss over the past two years—loss of physical access to school, to teachers and friends, to school activities and playtime. And many have lost loved ones to COVID-19 ...