Building Resilience in Students Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences

A Whole-Staff Approach

Victoria E. Romero, Ricky Robertson, Amber Warner

• Publisher: Corwin
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781544319414
• eBook ISBN: 9781544319438
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Behavioural Management

Use trauma-informed strategies to give students the skills and support they need to succeed in school and life Nearly half of all children have been exposed to at least one adverse childhood experience (ACE), such as poverty, divorce, neglect, homelessness, substance abuse, domestic violence, or parent incarceration. These students often enter school with behaviors that don't blend well with the typical school environment. How can a school community come together and work as a whole to establish a healthy social-emotional climate for students and the staff who support them? This workbook-style resource shows K-12 educators how to make a whole-school change, where strategies are integrated from curb to classroom. Readers will learn how to integrate trauma-informed strategies into daily instructional practice through expanded focus on:

• The different experiences and unique challenges of students impacted by ACEs in urban, suburban, and rural schools, including suicidal tendencies, cyberbullying, and drugs
• Behavior as a form of communication and how to explicitly teach new behaviors
• How to mitigate trauma and build innate resiliency through a read, reflect, and respond model

Let this book be the tool that helps your teams move students away from the school-to-prison pipeline and toward a life rich with educational and career choices.

"I cannot think of a book more needed than this one.It gives us the tools to support our students who have the most need while practicing the self-care necessary to continue to serve them."
—Lydia Adegbola, Chair of English Department
New Rochelle High School, NY "This book highlights the impact of trauma on children and the adults who work with them, while providing relevant and practical strategies to understand and address it through reflective practices."
—Marine Avagyan, Director, Curriculum and Instruction
Saugus Union School District, Sunland, CA

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• 1 ACEs and the New Normal
• 2 Put on Your Own Oxygen Mask Before Helping Others
• 3 It’s Easy to Have High Expectations—Hard to Grow a New Mindset
• 4 The Effects of Trauma on the Brain
• 5 Teaching Behaviors, Differentiating Interventions, Changing Pedagogy
• 6 Plan With the End in Mind Visioning a Compassionate School
• 7 From Theory to Practice Transformationist Actions Convert ACEs to Aces
• 8 The Process, the Plan, the Transformation
• 9 In Their Own Words
• Additional Reading and Resources
• Glossary of Terms
• References
• Index
• Publisher Note