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Contact Tierney Kirtdoll at 785-296-3142 if you have any questions.
“What’s the one thing that if we don’t fix, nothing else matters?” Every single community in Kansas is dealing with trauma in one form or another. We know that creating real success when we work with at-risk families and students experiencing generations of struggle often feels elusive and overwhelming. Increasingly, kids are bringing bigger challenges to our schools. Often educators feel unprepared and unequipped to meet these challenges to increase both academic and social emotional learning for each child. In our work with schools in Kansas and across the country, we have found that staff is experiencing a sense of powerlessness and overwhelm around truly serving each child in a way that has a lasting and meaningful impact. How do we do this in a way that protects and heals our staff to be successful with this new reality in public education? In this session, we’ll briefly unpack the vetted, longitudinal research around how poverty and/or trauma is a brain issue. How we heal both of these issues is through the same resilience-building framework. Participants will leave with a co-regulation plan that they can implement tomorrow in their classroom to help that struggling student or group of students. Participants will also leave with a long-view approach of how to truly design and equip a trauma- and resilience-responsive school that heals, disciplines, and teaches ALL students.
