Trauma-Sensitive School Leadership: Building a Learning Environment to Support Healing and Success

Bill Ziegler, Dave Ramage, Andrea Parson, Justin Foster

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About

Many educators have heard about the need to implement "trauma-sensitive" practices in order to help students heal and succeed. But what does this look like on a day-to-day basis? What does it require of teachers and of those who lead them?

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Introduction

Chapter 1. Biases and Barriers: Factors That Prevent Schools from Addressing Trauma

Chapter 2. Do No Harm: Taking Steps to Avoid Retraumatizing Students

Chapter 3. Discipline Practices: Embracing a Supportive, Solution-Based Approach

Chapter 4. Learning Spaces: Redesigning the Environment for Greater Safety and Support

About the authors

Bill Ziegler, EdD, has worked in public education for more than 27 years as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal. A national speaker and the co-author of Future-Focused Leaders and You Don't Need Superpowers to Be a Kid's Hero, Ziegler served as treasurer for the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) and as a member of the Apple Distinguished Schools Advisory Board. Honored as the 2016 Pennsylvania Principal of the Year and the 2015 NASSP Digital Award Winner, he is an Apple Distinguished Educator and the former co-host for the #AppleEDULeaderChat on Twitter.

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Dave Ramage, PhD, has been a public school educator for more than 30 years, serving as a middle school music teacher, instructional coach, staff developer, assistant principal, and principal. He is currently the director of integration for learning and instruction at Pottsgrove School District in Pennsylvania. A 2005 national finalist in Technology & Learning magazine's Technology Leaders Award, Ramage has presented at conferences including PETE&C, NECC, ISTE, PASCD, and the National Principals Conference, and he is the co-author of Future Focused Leaders and You Don't Need Superpowers to Be a Kid's Hero. He became an Apple Distinguished Educator in 2019.

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Andrea Parson is a school counselor at Cumberland County Elementary School in Burkesville, Kentucky. She has served at the elementary level since 2005 as a classroom teacher, library media specialist, and school counselor. She was a 2009 Mickelson Exxon Mobil National Educator and a Kentucky Teacher of the Year nominee in 2012 and 2013. She is a Youth Mental Health First Aid national trainer. As a regular presenter across the region, Parson has most recently presented at the Kentucky P3 Project Conference as well as The Leader in Me Symposium.

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Justin Foster is a school counselor who specializes in the whole child and interventions for students and teachers. He has worked in various settings from high school to his current assignment as an elementary school counselor, and he continues to serve, as he has for more than 20 years, as a community mental health therapist working with children and their families who have experienced trauma.