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melaniewiggins's review
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
This book should be required reading for any educator, period. I had to take my time with this book because reading it was both cathartic and grief inducing, knowing how short we are falling for our students. The author does an impeccable job blending theory and practicality, recognizing how hard this work can be while never letting us off the hook for fighting for the type of schooling environments that our students deserve. This is the book I wish I was smart enough to have written, and the book I desparately wish I had when starting my teaching career.
mlcorey's review
5.0
This book IS IT for all educators. If you work in an institution with kids, stop here. Read this! This book will have you looking at yourself and your school with a magnifying glass, but not in a shameful way. Alex shares important research and facts about where we are in education and where we should be thriving to get. I have sticky notes and highlights all over this book. It has made me dream big for this school year!
mzgeee53's review
5.0
Eliminate Racism 815 is reading Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education by Alex Shevrin Venet this month.
It's a profession-specific book, but I think it's helpful for everyone to know about this approach to education because it's so desperately needed at the beginning node of our society. We all have stories of where the American Education System didn't live up to the needs of its students. And it's going to take all of us to change that.
I think everything about this book is spot on. There is so much more to a school being trauma-informed than ACEs, and social emotional learning. Trauma doesn't just happen outside of school but IN school.
Everyone always says it's about the kids. But, if we really mean that, then we need to look at institutions of learning from an equity-centered, trauma-informed lens with every move we make.
My new question every time it comes to policy in the school I work at and the schools in my community: How will this policy help and/or hurt students of color? Students who live in poverty? Students in the LGBTQ+ community? Students with disabilities? Students who identify as female? And so on.
It's a profession-specific book, but I think it's helpful for everyone to know about this approach to education because it's so desperately needed at the beginning node of our society. We all have stories of where the American Education System didn't live up to the needs of its students. And it's going to take all of us to change that.
I think everything about this book is spot on. There is so much more to a school being trauma-informed than ACEs, and social emotional learning. Trauma doesn't just happen outside of school but IN school.
Everyone always says it's about the kids. But, if we really mean that, then we need to look at institutions of learning from an equity-centered, trauma-informed lens with every move we make.
My new question every time it comes to policy in the school I work at and the schools in my community: How will this policy help and/or hurt students of color? Students who live in poverty? Students in the LGBTQ+ community? Students with disabilities? Students who identify as female? And so on.
molly_dettmann's review
5.0
Excellent, excellent read. Trauma-informed seems like the latest education buzz word, that people throw around but even I don’t 100% get. In this book Alex does a great job of breaking down what being truly trauma-filled means when looking at it through an equity lens. I loved the parts about setting boundaries, creating UDL to benefit all students in a proactive instead of reactive manner, the shortfalls of the ACE score (always couldn’t quite put my finger on what rubbed me the wrong way about ACE, but here it was, plain as day!), deficit/savior mentality vs unconditional mentality, and overall I appreciated how intersectional all of the examples and food for thought bits were in terms of applying this theory and pedagogy in ways that really hit home. It even quoted bits from other life-changing educational reads and scholars that have been instrumental in how I’ve tried to learn and grown within my own practice. Highly recommend this one to all educators.
dashtaisen's review
informative
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
“Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education” is maybe not the most inviting book title, but in fact the book is accessible and thoughtful. It has a nice balance of tenderness and accountability for how teachers can contribute to equity. The author focuses especially on how to:
• recognize and avoid saviorism
• cultivate “unconditional positive regard” towards students
• set compassionate boundaries in how we interact with learners
• build relationships, connections, and community, both among ourselves and among learners
• figure out how we can name and push back on systemic injustices that aren’t totally within our control
• recognize and avoid saviorism
• cultivate “unconditional positive regard” towards students
• set compassionate boundaries in how we interact with learners
• build relationships, connections, and community, both among ourselves and among learners
• figure out how we can name and push back on systemic injustices that aren’t totally within our control
heymrsbond's review
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Stellar book with so many actionable steps toward more inclusive schools.