Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education

De: Alex Shevrin Venet

Narrado por: Erin deWard

Educators must both respond to the impact of trauma and prevent trauma at school.

Trauma-informed initiatives tend to focus on the challenging behaviors of students and ascribe them to circumstances that students are facing outside of school. This approach ignores the reality that inequity itself causes trauma and that schools often heighten inequities when implementing trauma-informed practices that are not based in educational equity.

In this fresh look at trauma-informed practice, Alex Shevrin Venet urges educators to shift equity to the center as they consider policies and professional development. Using a framework of six principles for equity-centered trauma-informed education, Venet offers practical action steps that teachers and school leaders can take from any starting point, using the resources and influence at their disposal to make shifts in practice, pedagogy, and policy. Overthrowing inequitable systems is a process, not an overnight change. But transformation is possible when educators work together, and teachers can do more than they realize from within their own classrooms.

©2021 Alex Shevrin Venet (P)2021 Tantor

Great, comprehensive intro to equity in school

Offers so many important ideas that any educator can consider and enact! The author carefully considers many different perspectives on the ideas given and why they are important. Definitely will come back to this frequently!