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I Didn’t Sign Up for This: Teaching Through the Eyes of Trauma

The ability to identify a student’s behavior as a response to an experience and not just deeming a child as “bad” is a skill-set that most educators do not have because they are not teaching through a trauma-informed lens.

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Never Lose Your Humanity

At times in education, we can become so engulfed with our schedules, stressors about the job, meeting deadlines, increasing student achievement, instructional practices and more, that we forget the one vital thing that keeps us all connected to one another, and that is our humanity.

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Nothing. Nada. Zilch. That's How Much a Second Chance Costs You.

"...my options were limited in the schools I worked in, as they had traditional discipline systems in place. My options were one of two, I could: 1) Ignore the behavior and pass the buck to the next teacher, or 2) Situation-dependent, write the student up and/or send them to the office."

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To my Fellow Educators, We are the New Alchemists!

Going back to how things were pre-pandemic is my greatest fear, as inequalities, disproportionality issues, and lack of engagement will continue, because as an institution, we have not placed enough value on the concepts that really impact student outcomes.

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Stuck in a Silo: A Teacher's Struggle to Address Student Behavior

But even up until last school year, in spite of the benefits of technology on my side, I still struggled with the same issue. I taught in a silo.

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When Teaching Became Important

Since 60% or more of my students, who sat speechless successfully for 50 minutes per day were failing, it became clear that silence was not to solution to classroom learning.