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Leading Schools Through Trauma is a data-driven resource for education leaders and administrators preparing to help students heal from acute traumas. Traumatizing experiences are inevitable and cyclical, and we see them at individual, local and large-scale levels. As a school leader you need concrete tools to help learners flourish in their wake, especially amid the challenges of our current moment. This book offers a strategic approach to sustaining community wellness and stability, using real-time, short-term data sets accessible to teachers, and guiding students toward incremental, progressive goal-setting. Evidence-based practices for recognizing traumas, scaling formative assessments and providing teachers with problem-based professional development will help you and your staff develop growth plans that are collaborative with and individualized for students.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Our new world order and how to help traumatized students 2. Recognizing trauma in learners, micro and macro 3. Treating the trauma: resources and teacher sensitivity 4. Implementation and training on trauma: preparation and PD 5. Actionable ideas to institute right away 6. Formative assessment: establishing and applying what is most relevant 7. Goal setting- small wins psychology and why it matters 8. Instituting an individualized plan in collaboration with student(s) 9. Considerations for educators’ management of their trauma: how to grow as models for learners 10. Next level success: putting it all together to step into flow
About the author
Michael S. Gaskell is Principal of Hammarskjold Middle School in East Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Summary
Leading Schools Through Trauma is a data-driven resource for education leaders and administrators preparing to help students heal from acute traumas.
