Strategies To Deal With The Coronavirus Trauma with Karen Gross Resilient Schools 24

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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