Program: School Improvement CTLE #755
Dates: 3/4/2027
This full-day interactive workshop invites PreK1/412 educators including teachers, specialists, paraprofessionals, counselors, and administrators, to explore trauma-informed care not as a specialized intervention, but as a universal framework for how we show up for every student, every day.
Grounded in an understanding of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and adverse community events, including houselessness, poverty, and systemic oppression, participants will examine how chronic stress and trauma shape learning, behavior, and relationships in the classroom. Together, participants will explore what it means to truly humanize our classroom communities: building environments where all students feel seen, safe, and capable. The day will weave together the research on emotion regulation, social-emotional learning (SEL), and other frameworks as complementary tools in an educator's toolkit, while centering a proactive and preventative lens.
Educators will leave with concrete, immediately applicable, proactive strategies and classroom routines to implement in the coming year, and a renewed sense of the profound impact their role has on overall student wellbeing. Special attention will be given to bridging the gap between skills students may be learning in therapy or outside-of-school support and the everyday rhythms of the classroom, so that coping strategies become lived practices, instead of isolated lessons.