trauma fundamentals for higher educator

Learn more about the UDL framework and the UDL Guidelines, developed and maintained by CAST.

The Online Learning Toolkit is excited to present the replay of Karen Costa's discussion on Supporting Learners with ADHD.

Adults need certain capabilities to succeed in life and support the development of the next generation. When these skills haven't developed as they should, or are compromised by the stresses of poverty, our communities pay the price.

What is your scope of practice as a higher educator? What’s yours? What’s not yours? What are you qualified to do in your role? In this video, Karen presents...

In the final step of the 5-R framework, educators are invited to reflect on how they can manage the heavy work of leading a classroom (or being a tutor, or l...

Here is some good news: you do not need to do this challenging work on your own. This is not me-work, it’s we-work. In this video, Karen discusses how to fin...

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Teaching is relational work. Trauma can impact the quality of our relationships. This video will discuss how an awareness of trauma has the power to dramatic...

This video discusses the concept of executive functions (EF) and how trauma can impact our EF and our students’. As you watch the video, consider these quest...

The first step in the 5-R framework is focused on harm reduction. By learning about trauma and its impacts, we can be mindful of not doing harm to our studen...

Watch this video for an introduction to Karen’s 5-R Framework:ReduceRegulateRelateReferRestoreAs you watch this video, notice which of these steps feels like...

RESILIENCE Meaning: "act of rebounding or springing back," often of immaterial things, from Latin resiliens, present… See origin and meaning of resilience.

Karen explains how her model of trauma-aware teaching fits into the larger scheme of trauma approaches.

In this video, Karen talks about the value of first defining pedagogy in order to better understand trauma fundamentals in higher education. Before you watch...

In this video, Karen shares how she thinks about trauma and its impacts using an example of a funnel.As you watch this video, consider these questions:What s...

When a child feels intensely threatened by an event he or she is involved in or witnesses, we call that event a trauma. There is a range of traumatic events or trauma types to which children and adolescents can be exposed.

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