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people affected by trauma sometimes interpret neutral signals as negative

“I invite (educators) to be crystal, crystal clear with students that you miss them and you care about them,”

Trauma takes power from people, so trauma-informed educators need to think critically about not reproducing that dynamic. Venet said that means dropping power struggles, such as the demands she’s seen that students wear certain clothes or sit in certain parts of their house during distance learning.

focus instead on empowering students through shared decision-making and authentic choice

model consent by not taking pictures of Zoom calls or sharing students’ work without permission

“Now more than ever, kids don’t need to be doing fake work. They don’t need to be doing worksheets,”

Use trauma as “a lens, not a label” to understand students. Trauma is a response, not an event. Do not assume that any particular child definitely did or did not experience something as trauma. Although the COVID-19 pandemic is creating widespread anxiety, not all kids are experiencing it as stressful. Resources and relationships play a role.