Fostering resilient learners
Strategies for creating a trauma sensitive classroom
The app translates a user's breath into a two-dimensional world where it is used to blow boats around, motivate kittens and power up robots. The game is designed for mobile (Android and iOS) and acts as an interface between the user and a set of breathing retraining exercises -- an anxiety management technique
Grounded in research and the authors' experience working with trauma-affected students and their teachers, Fostering Resilient Learners will help you cultivate a trauma-sensitive learning environment for students across all content areas, grade levels, and educational settings. The authors—a mental health therapist and a veteran principal—provide proven, reliable strategies to help you:
- Understand what trauma is and how it hinders the learning, motivation, and success of all students in the classroom.
- Build strong relationships and create a safe space to enable students to learn at high levels.
- Adopt a strengths-based approach that leads you to recalibrate how you view destructive student behaviors and to perceive what students need to break negative cycles.
- Head off frustration and burnout with essential self-care techniques that will help you and your students flourish.
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