SEL625: Trauma in Education

Durlak, J. A., Domitrovich, C. E. Weissberg, R. P. & Gullotta, T. P. (Eds.). (2015). Handbook of social and emotional learning: Research and practice. The Guilford Press. ISBN for eBook: 9781462520176 

Sagor, R. D. & Williams, C. (2017). The Action Research Guidebook: A Process for Pursuing Equity in Education. Corwin. eText ISBN: 9781506380612

From the Durlak textbook:

• Chapter 20 -- Systems for Assessing and Improving Students’ Social Skills to Achieve Academic Competence, Stephen N. Elliott, Jennifer R. Frey, and Michael Davies.
• Chapter 21 -- Challenges and Opportunities in the Direct Assessment of Children’s Social and Comprehension, Clark McKowan.
• Chapter 23 -- Assessment of Climate and Conditions for Learning, Mark Garibaldi, Sally Ruddy, Kimberly Kendziora, and Davide Osher.

From the Sagor & Williams textbook:

• Chapter 8 -- Analyzing Data (pp. 128-152)
  • Trend Analysis
  • Organizing Data to Help Answer the Three Generic Questions
• ACR Question 1: What Did We Do?
• ACR Question 2: What Changes Occurred Regarding the Achievement Targets
• ACR Question #: What Was the Relationship Between Actions Taken and Any Changes in performance on the Targets

• SAMHSA’s Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach
• The Future of Healing: Shifting From Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement
• Integrating SEL, Equity and Trauma Work for Multiplied Success
• Social and Emotional Competencies Checklist
• Strategies for Collaboration
• Trauma-Informed Teaching Strategies

• Why We Need Trauma-Sensitive Schools (updated 8/2017) (10:48 minutes) - Video

Canditates will submit an ARC for Weeks Three and Four. Select from readings, videos and text chapters, three items and add them to the ARC. Feel free to begin working on this from the resources provided this week, so you are fully preppared to submit the last two weeks of the course.

• Action Research Connection Template - Word Document (401.3 KB)