In the current moment, a focus on student voice can help support students’ sense of connection and belonging and can help mitigate the uncertainty and anxiety many may be experiencing. Often, adults in schools begin by trying to resolve issues by making decisions themselves, but in trauma-sensitive schools educators ask students about what they need and listen carefully to their responses before taking action.| Trauma Sensitive Schools
TLPI hosted the 3rd Annual Youth Summit, Raising our voices, Transforming our schools. Throughout the day, young people gathered in community with other youth to learn about youth-led advocacy work, participate in workshops, build advocacy & awareness skills, and engage in opportunities to share their perspectives of what they need to do well in school.| Trauma Sensitive Schools
TLPI convened a legislative briefing, Students Speak 2024: Humanizing Our School Communities to provide the opportunity for members of the Massachusetts Legislature to hear from secondary students from across the Commonwealth about what they need in order to do well in school and why the current moment presents a critical time to support funding for the Safe and Supportive Schools line item. TLPI convened a legislative briefing, Students Speak 2024: Humanizing Our School Communities to provid...| Trauma Sensitive Schools
In this post, we note how trauma-sensitive school leaders focus on creating learning environments that are safe havens, where students are met “where they are” and supported as such to re-connect, to develop needed skills, and to maintain their physical and emotional health and well-being.| Trauma Sensitive Schools
Schools play a significant role in supporting not only a young person’s academic development but their healthy social-emotional development as well. Disruptions from the pandemic have undermined school's supportive role, especially for those students at critical transitional stages.| Trauma Sensitive Schools
Viewing the pandemic as a shared exposure to trauma among everyone in the school community helps us look differently at what is in front of us. It also helps us respond differently with a focus on practices that can mitigate the impact of the traumatic experience of the pandemic by strengthening the sense of community in our school.| Trauma Sensitive Schools
TLPI shares a series of blog posts highlighting key take-aways that we have heard from discussions with trauma-sensitive school leaders as they reflect on how utilizing the trauma lens guides them in their response to the ongoing pandemic-related challenges. TLPI shares a series of blog posts highlighting key take-aways that we have heard from discussions with trauma-sensitive school leaders as they reflect on how utilizing the trauma lens guides them in their response to the ongoing pand...| Trauma Sensitive Schools
TLPI recently held a legislative briefing where students from Massachusetts’ high schools shared with legislators what they need from their schools in order to learn and do well in this critical time of transition and recovery from the pandemic.| Trauma Sensitive Schools
This virtual briefing will take place on Wednesday, March 9th at 11:00am (EST) on Zoom. At the briefing, high school students from across the Commonwealth will share their perspectives on what they need in order to do well in school and why now is a critical moment to prioritize funding for Safe and Supportive Schools.| Trauma Sensitive Schools
We are thrilled to share with you a new website, www.students-speak.org, that provides a platform that uplifts students’ voices and showcases their actions and advocacy to help create schools that provide what they need in order to do well.| Trauma Sensitive Schools
