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Kristin Souers, lead author of Fostering Resilient Learners, now brings teachers and parents/caregivers an illustrated message they can share with their children.
In her first ever children's book, Kristin serves as the brain
lady who teaches children about the 10 things they can do every day to help their brains and bodies stay healthy and focused. AND, you will have the option to purchase activity sheets, posters, postcards, magnets and lessons for how to reinforce the concepts taught in this book! This is the first in a series of books that will teach children the very concepts that Kristin teaches others in her books and other writing materials.
Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation: Trauma-Invested Practices for Fostering Resilient Learners
by Kristin Souers with Pete Hall
In this stirring follow-up to the award-winning Fostering Resilient Learners, Kristin Van Marter Souers with Pete Hall take you to the next level of trauma-invested practice. To get there, they explain, educators need to build a "nest"—a positive learning environment shaped by three new Rs of education: relationship, responsibility, and regulation.
Drawing from their extensive experience working with schools, students, and families throughout the country, the authors
Explain how to create a culture of safety in which everyone feels valued, important, and capable of learning.
Describe the four areas of need—emotional, relational, physical, and control—that drive student behaviors and show how to meet these needs with interventions framed around the new three Rs.
Illustrate trauma-invested practices in action through real scenarios that identify students' unmet needs, examine the situation from five stakeholder perspectives, and suggest interventions to support students and their families.
Offer opportunities to challenge your beliefs and develop deeper and different ways of thinking about your role in your students' lives.
Educators have a unique opportunity to influence students' learning, attitudes, and futures. This book will invigorate your practice and equip you to empower those you serve—whatever their personal histories.
Trauma-Invested Practices to Meet Students' Needs - Quick Reference Guide:
From the best-selling authors of Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation this quick reference guide from Kristin Van Marter Souers and Pete Hall introduces the new three Rs of education: relationship, responsibility, and regulation. These three Rs will support teachers in designing interventions aimed at meeting four areas of student need: emotional, relational, physical, and control.
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Testimonials
“Hello. We purchased this book for our Employment Readiness Teachers/Transition and SpEd teachers. It's outstanding.” SPED Coordinator
“I am in charge of the student health section of the … Non-Public Educator's Association's Educator conference ... Your organization had such a profound impact on my school, that I wanted to share your message with the over 3,000 educators who will be at the conference. My staff also read your book and have implemented many of the strategies. Please let me know if you are interested in presenting on trauma-informed classrooms at our event. Thank you!”
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Fostering Resilient Learners
Fostering Resilient Learners, our first book, written by Kristin Souers with Pete Hall has been a best seller since its’ release. No one is immune from stress. This first book was written for the providers. It was intended to introduce us to a new approach to others who may be struggling. This book presents case studies, research, stories, and practical, easy-to-implement strategies to help students living with trauma thrive in the classroom.
The book includes strategies to help education professionals:
Understand what trauma is and how it hinders the learning, motivation, and success of all students in the classroom.
Build strong relationships and create a safe space to enable students to learn at high levels.
Adopt a strengths-based approach that helps prefessionals recalibrate how destructive student behaviors are viewed and to perceive what students need to break negative cycles.
Head off frustration and burnout with essential self-care techniques that will help professionals and students flourish.
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Creating a Trauma Sensitive Classroom - Quick Reference Guide:
Based on the best-selling, award-winning book Fostering Resilient Learners, this laminated reference guide will give every educator the tools needed to ensure every child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged in school.
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An ASCD Study Guide for Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom
You can use the study guide after you have read the book or as you finish each chapter. The study questions provided are not meant to cover all aspects of the book but to address specific ideas that might warrant further reflection and prompt you to make connections with your own classroom practice.
Although you can think about many of this guide's questions on your own, we recommend forming a study group with grade-level colleagues who have read (or are reading) Fostering Resilient Learners, or using this guide as you read and reflect on the book in a professional learning community (PLC).
View this guide on the ASCD website.
awards
This critically acclaimed book has earned two publication awards, including the REVERE Award from the Association of American Publishers in the category of School Climate, and has garnered significant attention in the field of education.
ASCD Digital Product Team's Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom is a 2018 Telly Awards bronze winner in the General-Social Issues category.