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Explores an urgent and growing issue--childhood trauma--and its profound effect on learning and teaching. Fostering Resilient Learners is designed to help teachers cultivate a trauma-sensitive learning environment for students across all content areas, grade levels, and educational settings. The authors--a mental health therapist and a veteran principal--provide strategies to help teachers understand what trauma is and how it hinders the learning, motivation, and success of all students in the classroom. Helps teachers build strong relationships and create a safe space to enable students to learn at high levels. Helps teachers adopt a strengths-based approach & perceive what students need to break negative cycles. Each chapter also includes questions and exercises to encourage reflection and extension of the ideas in this book. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Traumatic stress. PTSD. Psychic trauma in children. Resilience. | |