Trailwoods Elementary Principal Christy Harrison says her school has a 'warm, fuzzy' vibe that visitors frequently comment on. A few years ago, Missouri’s suspension rate was the highest in the nation ...

This month, students and teachers across the country are returning to classrooms amid an ongoing pandemic. Many have spent the past year dealing with illness, economic hardship, virtual and disrupted ...

(This is the last post in a three-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Susan E. Craig, Ph.D. is a lifelong student of trauma’s effects on children’s learning. She is the author ...

Traumatic experiences can have ripple effects that permeate across many aspects of people's lives. For students, adverse childhood experiences have been shown to impact attention, memory, language ...

In the United States, 34 million children have had at least one adverse childhood experience (ACE)-- ranging from abuse or neglect to parental incarceration or addiction. Children living in poverty ...

In my last year as a school administrator, a new student arrived. She had issues with defiance and a history of violence against herself and school officials. These behaviors bubbled to the surface as ...

A loving relationship can be an oasis in uncertain times, but nurturing it requires attention, honesty, openness, vulnerability, and gratitude. I was asked to write a blog post about a recent trend in ...

Roughly half of children in the U.S. have experienced some form of trauma, making it critical that educators consider trauma-informed approaches to teaching. This form of instruction recognizes that ...

Nathalie Reid receives funding from the Centre for Educational Research, Collaboration, & Development. This research project is internally funded by the Centre for Educational Research, Collaboration, ...

I was asked to write a blog post about a recent trend in education for K-12 Talk that I find either exciting or concerning. I decided to write about a topic that is both exciting and concerning: the ...