Karen Gross is an author and educator, as well as an advisor and consultant to nonprofit schools, organizations, and governments; instructor of continuing education at Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work; visiting professor at Bennington College; former president of Southern Vermont College; former senior policy advisor to the United States Department of Education; and author of the sidequel, Breakaway Learners: Strategies for Post-Secondary Success with At-Risk Students and the trauma-sensitive children’s book series, Lady Lucy’s Quest. Visit Karen’s website at www.karengrosseducation.com.
- Name it - start by recognizing that it exists. What is traumatic for one may not be traumatic for another.
- Tame it - Strategies to deal with those. Invisible and it never goes away.
- Fight, flight, freeze, faint, fawn.
- activities that activate the senses allow the brain to reset.
- Example of strategies - stand on one leg.
- All of the senses have activities that are tied to them.
- Frame it
- Gotta do something to activate the brain.
- Triphasic - dysregulated, isolated, over-regulated.
- long-term strategies.
- Instead of blaming, seek to find what caused the behavior?
- Processing in place.
- Kimochis - https://www.kimochis.com
- Fidget boxes
- Play table.
- how to be a transformative principal? Assuming schools haven’t reopened - reach out to everyone and provide support.
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Episode 24
