Reclaiming School in the Aftermath of Trauma Advice Based on Experience [Hardcover]

Teachers in schools where students have experienced trauma face particularly difficult challenges, for how is a teacher to promote academic growth and attainment of educational goals in such a situation? Provides advice, understanding, and proven strategies for meeting the challenges that must be faced after a traumatic experience.PART I: UNDERSTANDING TRAUMA Trauma Comes to School Trauma's Effect on the Brain: An Overview for Educators Pretending to do School PART II: LEARNING FROM THE EXPERIENCE Hurricane Katrina and the Children of Louisiana Inner-city Charter School in Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Principal's Perspective Reclaiming the New York Law School Who's Looking out for the Students? 'You Don't Learn These Things in Principal School' Not Here, Not at Columbine Aftercare Support for School Personnel after a School Shooting in Finland Burned into Memory: Remnants of Bullying and Personal Victimization Community - Just Getting Through This: Bailey, Colorado PART III: PUTTING THE PAIN TO WORK Recommendations & Implications Resources

This one is hard to put down! By meeting numerous individuals who have survived the pain of disaster and the healing of recovery, readers learn how to confront future events so as to become not just who they are, but who they would like to be. Experiences from school shootings ranging from Columbine and Platte Canyon High Schools, Virginia Tech, and the Jokela School Center in Tuusula, Finland, are juxtaposed with those who survived Katrina, the 9/11 attacks, and school bullying. We leave with an enriched understanding of how pain can be put to work. The writing is crisp; the analyses are told by those who actually were there; and the lessons provide food for thought to all, be they teachers, administrators, parents, or community members. A must-read! - Thomas E. Drabek, author of The Human Side of Disaster; Professor Emeritus, University of Denver

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