Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom Video

with Kristen Souers and Pete Hall

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Based on the best-selling book Fostering Resilient Learners, this video explores the effects of childhood trauma on learning and teaching and ways that educators can manage these effects.

They provide strategies for

• Understanding what trauma is and how it impedes student learning.
• Building strong relationships and creating a safe classroom environment that supports high level learning.
• Adopting a strengths-based approach that changes your perception of negative student behaviors and shows you what they need to break negative cycles.
• Heading off frustration and burnout with essential self-care techniques that will help you and your students thrive.

In Fostering Resillient Learners, Souers and Hall present the solutions you need for dealing with the impact of trauma in classroom and allowing students to learn at high levels.

This ASCD video includes closed captioning.

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Related Book

The best-selling book Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom, by Kristen Souers with Pete Hall, is the basis for this video.

In this galvanizing book for all educators, Kristin Souers and Pete Hall explore an urgent and growing issue—childhood trauma—and its profound effect on learning and teaching.

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About the Consultants

Kristen Souers is a licensed mental health counselor in the State of Washington. She is an assistant director at Washington State University's Child and Family Research Unit (CAFRU) in the CLEAR Trauma Center. She is an expert in understanding the impact of trauma on individuals and families and has provided consultation and training on this topic to education and human services systems for more than 20 years.

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Pete Hall is a veteran school administrator and professional development agent who has dedicated his career to supporting the improvement of our education systems. Hall currently works as an educational consultant as a member of the ASCD Faculty and trains educators worldwide.

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