My students are growing learners who need additional support to spark and ignite their curiosity and love of learning. Some have struggled within a typical classroom all of their educational careers. At my school, our team of teachers hopes to break that cycle by using engaging projects, innovative teaching, instructional technologies, and partnering with businesses to offer more authentic learning experiences. We hope to help our students become the future boost the area needs to open new businesses and bring new ideas to make it the booming beacon it once was.
My students have great potential to be the change our area needs.
However, we need to continue to challenge and enrich their learning environment. By having project-based learning as our main focus to try and re-engage and enrich their learning, we also need to meet their other demands. We need to foster within them to independently seek out challenges and persevere through them. We need to develop within them the ability to become lifelong learners. By offering a variety of opportunities, we can help these students become well-rounded individuals.
My Project
Through recent conferences and workshops, I realized that more resources are needed to support our students who have experienced trauma or are still experiencing trauma. The books and the resources on this list will provide teachers in my building tools for their toolbox to help support them and through that their students. Many of the books are to help build understanding of how trauma impacts our students on a day to day basis and to make us trauma-informed educators and trauma-sensitive schools. Some resources that will support students are mindfulness guides (activities and workbooks), Yoga Pretzel cards so that we can take mindful and purposeful breaks to help relieve tension and stress, books that provide knowledge on trauma and trauma interventions and responses.
By providing these resources, teachers will be more equipped and informed to support our students who have experienced or are living through trauma.
If we can be a more informed school when it comes to trauma and difficult situations our students face, then the benefits are potentially endless for our educators and students.
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom (Quick Reference Guide)
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Fostering Resilience and Well-Being in Children and Families in Poverty: Why Hope Still Matters
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Fostering Resilience: Expecting All Students to Use Their Minds and Hearts Well
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Trauma-Sensitive Schools for the Adolescent Years: Promoting Resiliency and Healing, Grades 6–12
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It’s Not About Grit: Trauma, Inequity, and the Power of Transformative Teaching
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Disenfranchised Grief: New Directions, Challenges, and Strategies for Practice
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Building Trauma-Sensitive Schools: Your Guide to Creating Safe, Supportive Learning Environments for All Students
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Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom
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Mindfulness for Teachers: Simple Skills for Peace and Productivity in the Classroom (The Norton Series on the Social Neuroscience of Education)
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Teaching to Strengths: Supporting Students Living with Trauma, Violence, and Chronic Stress
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Building Resilience in Students Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Whole-Staff Approach
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The Trauma-Sensitive Classroom: Building Resilience with Compassionate Teaching
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The Whole-Brain Child Workbook: Practical Exercises, Worksheets and Activities to Nurture Developing Minds
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Coping Skills for Kids Workbook: Over 75 Coping Strategies to Help Kids Deal with Stress, Anxiety and Anger
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Little Flower Yoga for Kids: A Yoga and Mindfulness Program to Help Your Child Improve Attention and Emotional Balance
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Yoga and Mindfulness Practices for Children Card Deck
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Mindful Games Activity Cards: 55 Fun Ways to Share Mindfulness with Kids and Teens
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Mindful Chair Yoga Card Deck
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Yoga and Mindfulness Practices for Teens Card Deck
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The Invisible String
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Beyond PTSD: A Trauma-Informed Guide for Educators
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Reaching & Teaching Children Exposed to Trauma
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The Color Monster: A Pop-Up Book of Feelings
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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, 3rd Edition: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)
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Yoga Pretzels (Yoga Cards)
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The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child
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Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication
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Mindful Games: Sharing Mindfulness and Meditation with Children, Teens, and Families
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This Moment Is Your Life (and So Is This One): A Fun and Easy Guide to Mindfulness, Meditation, and Yoga
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The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
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No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
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Keeping It Real: Creative Classroom Techniques for Working With Trauma-Affected Students
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The Invisible String
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Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$164.10
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