Susan Cole, director of Education Law Clinic of the Trauma Learning Policy Initiative, is quoted in a two-part series in Huffington Post about trauma-sensitive schools and district-wide support systems for traumatized students:
“[A school-wide strategy] enables children to feel academically, socially, emotionally and physically safe wherever they go in the school. And when children feel safe, they can calm down and learn.”
“There is much work ahead at the policy level. Helping educators understand that trauma is playing a key role in many of the problems they are seeing at school is going to require a movement.”
Read more at Trauma-Sensitive Schools Are Better Schools and Trauma-Sensitive Schools Are Better Schools, Part Two.