Creating Trauma-Informed, Resilient Schools

Many SD27 staff participated in 3 separate sessions focusing on resilience with an emphasis on understanding how trauma impacts children and their school experience through the Circle of Courage model. Participants gained proactive strategies such as fostering connections, prioritizing social and emotional skills, establishing safety, and promoting play and learned the “how” in creating the best classroom and school supports for traumatized students and the school professionals who serve them. Participants learned how to assess students, create support plans, utilize strategies to collaborate with families and communities and collect and utilize outcome data.