Trauma Informed Education is a healing-centered approach to adverse childhood experiences specifically as it applies to schools. This course discusses trauma and how it affects students, learning, and the classroom environment. The course also details what ACEs and trauma are, how to identify their signs and symptoms, how they impact students and schools, and how to respond in a compassionate, healing-centered way. Best practices for schools and classrooms regarding trauma-informed approaches to education are provided as well as how schools can recognize and respond to the secondary trauma school employees are exposed to. 

Learning Objectives: 

• The impact of adverse childhood experiences on students' education and on the school and classroom culture

• How to identify the signs and symptoms of ACEs and trauma

• Best practices for schools and classrooms regarding trauma-informed approaches to education 

• Recognition of the impact of secondary trauma on school employees.