Trauma-Sensitive Schools: Shifting to Partnership in Education and Society
This April 2, 2020 webinar brought together Dr. Mary Crnobori, BCBA, Khayree Bey, BBSc, M.Ed. and Dr. Riane Eisler in an important dialogue about how trauma-sensitive schools are a foundation for partnership cultures.
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An exciting conversation that bridges on-the-ground wisdom from the classroom; policy-level wisdom from a district that is making a difference, and wisdom about how these local shifts are an essential part of whole-systems change in the direction of Partnership Systems.
In this fascinating conversation, Mary and Khayree shared on-the-ground stories about their work implementing effective, compassionate, trauma-sensitive practices at all levels in public school systems, from whole-district initiatives to classroom-based strategies. They shared resources to help you join the trauma-informed movement in your classroom, school or district.
Riane Eisler showed how the emerging field of trauma-sensitive practices in schools is a crucial way to ignite broader societal shifts that move us away from domination systems and toward partnership systems that support equity, peace, and well-being.
Learn about:
Intergenerational trauma and the roots of domination systems
The neuroscience of stress in domination systems
Trauma-sensitive schools: Models for district- and school-wide approaches
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and school success: the latest research
How to support healthy self-regulation in educators and students
Mindfulness practices in schools
How healthy schools are a foundation for partnership cultures
The Panelists
Khayree Bey, 2019 SHAPE Delaware’s Health Teacher of the Year, shares how he is implementing an equity-based trauma-informed approach in his classroom based on the art of mindfulness, Kemetic yoga and other self-care practices, and how he is teaching other teachers, community and staff to do the same. Khayree serves on Colonial School District’s Educators of Color committee which focuses on equity and the underrepresented population in teaching by recruiting, assisting, and maintaining educators of color. Watch Khayree Bey on Colonial School District’s October edition of Keeping up with Colonial.
Mary Crnobori, coordinator of Trauma-Informed Schools for the 169-school Metro Nashville Public School District, shares how she is working at the district level to raise awareness of childhood and intergenerational trauma, using a collective impact framework to promote system-wide change and implementation of school-wide trauma-sensitive practices and collaborate with police and other community agencies to support students experiencing traumatic events. Watch Mary Crnobori at TEDx Vanderbilt University: Why All Schools Should be Trauma Informed.
Riane Eisler, founder of the Center for Partnership Studies and author of Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future, explains how the implementation of trauma-sensitive practices in schools is an essential lever for the systemic cultural shift away from relationships of domination and toward relations of partnership. Riane Eisler is internationally known as a systems scientist and attorney pioneering the human rights of women and children.
Hosted by the Center for Partnership Systems
