Trauma-Informed Teaching Strategies

Helping teachers create positive classroom experiences so students can flourish.

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For Administrators:

Starr Commonwealth partners with educational leaders to co-create school environments where healing is possible, resilience is built, and every child and adult feels safe, seen, and supported.

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For Teachers:

Explore classroom-ready tools and strategies to support students’ emotional well-being and build resilience every day.

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RECOMMENDED READING

Books that will change the way you teach.

Create a classroom that heals, empowers, and uplifts.

10 Steps to Create a Trauma-Informed Resilient School

Discover practical tools, real-life scenarios, and step-by-step guidance to support students’ emotional well-being and break down barriers to learning.

10 Steps to Create Trauma-Informed, Resilient Early Childhood Care

Clear, practical strategies for caregivers to build supportive, healing environments for young children—starting with resilience and growing into a full, trauma-informed approach that fits together like puzzle pieces.

One-Minute Resilience Building Interventions for Traumatized Children and Adolescents

This practical workbook offers quick, age-specific, sensory-based activities to help children and teens (ages 3–17) process trauma and build resilience—perfect for classroom or counseling settings.

Practicing Resilience Journal: Essential Self-Care for Helping Professionals

This reflective journal invites educators and caregivers to slow down, tune in, and reconnect with their inner selves as a first step toward meaningful self-care.

ARTICLES

Unerstanding Trauma and Your Students

What Is Trauma-Informed Teaching?

When students have experienced trauma, learning comes second to feeling safe.

10 Things About Childhood Trauma Every Teacher Needs To Know

For children who have experienced trauma, learning can be a struggle.

Understanding Trauma Changed My Teaching … and My Students’ Lives

This Teacher of the Year turned trauma-informed practices into real change.

Relationship-Building Attendance Questions

This Google Slideshow contains 50 questions perfect for getting to know your middle or high school students.

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Exploring Healing and Hope Through Conversation

Resilience Matters is a podcast dedicated to unpacking the complexities of trauma and exploring the many pathways toward healing. Each episode brings together expert voices, real-life experiences, and actionable tools to support individuals and communities in building resilience that matters.

These stories remind us that behind every success is someone who believed—and that with your support, we can keep shining that light for youth who need it most.

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