10 Things About Childhood Trauma Every Teacher Needs To Know
Tips for understanding kids who have been through trauma, plus trauma-informed teaching strategies to help them.
Featured Articles
10 Simple Ways To Build Resilience in Your Students
Help them bounce back, overcome challenges, and succeed despite setbacks by teaching resilience in the classroom.
Trauma Was Hiding at This School. Is It Lurking at Your School Too?
Find out how it was discovered and how teachers are using trauma-informed education to help.
Expert Answers to Tough Childhood Trauma Questions From Real Teachers
When you don't know what to say or do, these tips from a trauma-informed education expert can help.
Can Helping Your Students Cope With Trauma Make You Sick?
Quiz: Learn more about secondary traumatic stress in teachers and how it may be affecting you.
Courageous Classrooms: Skill of the Week
Customizable weekly, trauma-informed classroom lessons to teach, model, and reinforce life-long social, emotional, and behavioral skills.
Activities & Printables
5 Calming Mind BodyPrintable Activities
These resilience activities for students encourage better self-control, anxiety management, concentration, and focus.
5 One-Minute Activities To Help Students Build Resilience
These printable resilience activities for students fit perfectly into lessons about reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
Professional Development
Trauma-Informed Certification for Teachers
This trauma-informed teaching professional development transforms the lens through which you view and react to childhood behavior in your classroom.
Resilient Schools Starter Kit
Create a school culture that addresses student needs beyond academics and provides support for teaching resilience in the classroom.
About Starr Commonwealth Trauma-Informed Teaching Strategies
Starr Commonwealth empowers educators to provide an equity-centered, trauma-informed education that builds resilience in all students. Starr guides educators to adopt trauma-informed practices in schools, such as trauma-informed classroom management and trauma-informed teaching strategies. They also provide resources for teaching resilience in the classroom, including resilience activities for students. Additionally, Starr offers trauma-informed professional development, such as a trauma-informed teaching certification online. Learn more at Starr.org.