{"id":25493,"date":"2021-01-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/?p=25493"},"modified":"2023-07-31T22:05:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T22:05:36","slug":"trauma-and-its-toll-on-students-and-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/blog\/trauma-and-its-toll-on-students-and-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trauma and Its Toll on Students and Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>There\u2019s little doubt in my mind that the last several months have had profound negative impacts on our children (and on you!).<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Social and physical distancing, the disruption of normal life, and jarring racial inequities and violence have taken their toll on everyone\u2019s mental health\u2014kids especially.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trauma caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, racism, and innumerable tragedies in this country and around the world needs to be addressed. There\u2019s a statistic I usually refer to that barely skims the surface of the severity of the mental health crisis currently happening in this country:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">46% of students under 17 have experienced a traumatic event, and 26% of children under four have experienced a traumatic event.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These percentages are likely increasing by the very day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So how do we show up for our children? How do we support them as we all survive this ordeal? And how do you support yourself because somehow your job has just become even harder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/onlinecourses\/trauma-informed-schools\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trauma-Informed Schools<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> equips educators with the tools they need in order to reach and teach children who\u2019ve lived through trauma.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This professional development course will prepare you with key insights into how to really <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">help <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the children who walk into your classroom each day. And it\u2019s a self-paced course which means you or your school can take the course in bite-sized chunks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn about:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Impact of Stress and Trauma on Learning<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to Build a Resilient Classroom<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creating Gritty Learners<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neuroscience and Brain-Based Learning Strategies<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How the Brain Operates\u2014and How to Redirect It<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dealing with Students from Traumatic Backgrounds<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trauma in Teachers\u2014Fighting Burnout with Self Care<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This course is now available in an on-demand format, so you can get the training you need to support your children inside and out of the classroom. Check out the course <a href=\"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/onlinecourses\/trauma-informed-schools\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s little doubt in my mind that the last several months have had profound negative impacts on our children (and on you!). Social and physical distancing, the disruption of normal life, and jarring racial inequities and violence have taken their toll on everyone\u2019s mental health\u2014kids especially.\u00a0 Trauma caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, racism, and innumerable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trauma-informed-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strobeleducation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}