The Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative
February 12, 2014
Watch Sal Terrasi's video
Dr. Sal Terrasi, Director of Pupil Personnel Services for Brockton Public Schools, spoke about Brockton’s work to create trauma-sensitive learning environments for students. Drawing a parallel with the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Terrasi views current efforts to make schools trauma sensitive as stemming from the same impetus that drove desegregation: a desire to create the best learning environments for children.
Watch Ryan Power's video
Ryan Powers, Principal of the Mary E. Baker Elementary School in Brockton, MA, discusses the importance of focusing in a trauma-sensitive way on the social and emotional well-being of all students. Principal Powers discusses Helping Traumatized Children Learn, Volume 1 (the “Purple Book”), which creates awareness of the impact of trauma on learning at school. He explains how Volume 2 (the “Teal Book”) details steps schools can take to improve academic achievement by educating the whole child in a trauma-sensitive way.
Download free PDF copies of both books, or order them printed and bound, HERE.
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