Strategies to deal with the Coronavirus Trauma with Karen Gross Transformative Principal 346

Aug 30, 2020

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Karen Gross is an author and educator, as well as an advisor and consultant to nonprofit schools, organizations, and governments; instructor of continuing education at Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work; visiting professor at Bennington College; former president of Southern Vermont College; former senior policy advisor to the United States Department of Education; and author of the sidequel, Breakaway Learners: Strategies for Post-Secondary Success with At-Risk Students and the trauma-sensitive children’s book series, Lady Lucy’s Quest. Visit Karen’s website at www.karengrosseducation.com.

Name it - start by recognizing that it exists. What is traumatic for one may not be traumatic for another.
Tame it - Strategies to deal with those. Invisible and it never goes away.
Fight, flight, freeze, faint, fawn.
activities that activate the senses allows the brain to reset.
Example of strategies - stand on one leg.
All of the senses have activities that are tied to them.
Frame it
Gotta do something to activate the brain.
Triphasic - disregulated, isolated, over regulated.
long term strategies.
Instead of blaming, seek to find what caused the behavior?
Processing in place.
Kimochis - https://www.kimochis.com
Fidget boxes
Play table.
how to be a transformative principal? Assuming schools haven’t reopened - reach out to everyone and provide support.

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