Educator Resources:

Read books that will shape and grow your understanding of the impacts of trauma:

• The Body Keeps the Score, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
• My Grandmother’s Hands, Resmaa Menakem
• Waking the Tiger, Dr. Peter Levine
• In An UnSpoken Voice, Dr. Peter Levine
• The Pocket Guide to The PolyVagal Theory, Dr. Stephen Porges
• The Deepest Well, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
• The Boy Who Raised As A Dog, Dr. Bruce Perry
• Childhood Disrupted, Donna Nakazawa
• Healing Developmental Trauma, Dr. Laurence Keller and Aline LaPierre
• When the Body Says “No!”, Dr. Gabor Mate
• In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts:  Close Encounters with Addiction, Dr. Gabor Mate
• Ghosts From the Nursery:  Tracing the Roots of Violence, Robin Karr-Morse, Meredith Wiley
• For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood, Christopher Emdin
• Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
• Beyond Behaviors, Dr. Mona Delahooke
• We Want to Do More Than Survive, Bettina Love
• Self-Reg, Stuart Shanker
• Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight, Dr. Sharon Heller
• Eyes Are Never Quiet, Lori DeSautels and Michael McKnight
• 101 Trauma-Informed Interventions, Linda Curran
• Help for Billy, Heather Forbes
• The Trauma-Informed School:  A Step By Step Guide, Jim Sporleder & Heather Forbes
• Cultivating Genius, Gholdy Muhammad

Listen to podcasts, videos, and interviews that will inform and inspire you:

• “How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime” – Ted Talk, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
• “How Childhood Trauma Can Make You a Sick Adult” – Dr. Vincent Felitti
• “How Trauma Lodges in the Body” – Interview with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
• “The Body Keeps the Score:  Brain, Mind, and Body in Healing Trauma – Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
• “The Neuroscience and Power of Safe Relationships” – Interview with Dr. Stephen Porges
• “Toxic Stress Derails Healthy Development” – Center for the Developing Child
• “How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations” – Interview with Rachel Yehuda
• The Healing Place Podcast”– Teri Wellbrock
• “Ray’s Story”: Somatic Experiencing with Dr. Peter Levine
• “The Roots of Healing” – Dr. Gabor Mate
• “The Myth of Normal” – Dr. Gabor Mate
• “The Lasting Effects of Childhood Trauma” – Interview with Dr. Bruce Perry
• “Healing From Unspeakable Trauma:  A Conversation with Dr. Bruce Perry” – Radio Cafe
• The Regulated Classroom:  “Bottom-Up” Trauma-Informed Training – ALC Radio Hour
• The Trauma-Informed Educators Network Podcast Interview with Emily Read Daniels
• CONVOS during COVID:  Understanding the Stress of Social Distancing with Dr. Stephen Porges
• CONVOS during COVID:  Understanding and Addressing the Stress of Touch Hunger with Neuroscientist, Dr. Victoria Abraira and Capeable Founder, Marna Pacheco

• CONVOS during COVID:  The Role of Literacy and Black Excellence in Anti-Racist Schools with Dr. Gholdy Muhammad
• CONVOS during COVID:  Increasing Resilience in Female School Leaders 

Join online communities to learn from and participate in conversations with experts and other PLUs:

• ACES Connection 
• ACES in Education
• Trauma-Informed Educators Network
• Trauma-Informed Schools Group
• ESSDACK Resilience Team
• Somatic Experiencing
• ACES for ALL in Education
• The Vermont Trauma Lens
• MAD in America
• The Body Keeps the Score