Creating Adversity-Aware Schools

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*Highly commended in the CPD category for the Teach Awards 2024*

The impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences lie behind many of the most common and bewildering classroom challenges today.

Understanding the why behind students’ behaviour can be transformative in shifting school behaviour, as well as the welfare of your students. This book is grounded in the lived experiences of educators who overcame challenges in early life. It combines their insights with easy to implement tools, worksheets and resources drawing on proven Restorative Practice, Transactional Analysis, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy approaches. It will provide you with a fresh perspective – to see what is really going on in your classroom – and will give you the confidence to provide the support your students really need in order to thrive.

Whether you are a school leader, teacher or classroom assistant; primary or secondary; in mainstream, SEND or alternative provision, this book will help you to create positive change.

Reviews

Our autonomic nervous system is the engine that runs the body and is intimately impacted by adversities and trauma. In this new book, there are powerful practices that address the whole child, reaching for ways that address what lies beneath behaviors so that students are experiencing conditions of felt safety.
Dr. Lori Desautels Assistant Professor at Butler University and author of "Intentional Neuroplasticity, Moving our Nervous Systems and Educational System Toward Post traumatic Growth."
Amid a growing interest in trauma-informed approaches, this book draws on the lived experience of education professionals to present a new and compelling viewpoint on the complex interplay of relationships and perspectives in the classroom. Essential reading.
Rebecca Brooks, Education Policy Advisor, Adoption UK