Trauma can have a lasting effect on how students learn, behave, and relate to others. In fact, nearly 50% of students under the age of 17 have experienced at least one traumatic event—shaping how they process information, manage emotions, and interact in school environments.
The Trauma-Informed Practices Professional Development Course helps educators recognize the signs of trauma, respond with compassion, and create classroom environments that promote emotional safety, academic engagement, and student success. Based on research-backed principles of trauma-informed care, this training equips teachers with actionable strategies to prevent re-traumatization, foster resilience, and support every learner’s growth.
This course emphasizes the core values of safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration, and empowerment, and provides tools to redesign instruction, discipline, and classroom culture through a trauma-sensitive lens. You’ll learn how to avoid retraumatization, build strong teacher-student relationships, and create consistent routines that support regulation and healing.
By the end of this course, educators will be equipped to design safe, connected, and supportive classrooms where all students can heal, grow, and thrive.
Lifetime Access to Digital Resources.
Implementation workbook for note-taking.
6 hours of PD Credit.
Explore the different types of trauma—acute, chronic, and complex—and understand how these experiences shape students’ cognitive, emotional, and social development. Learn to identify signs of trauma and build awareness of how trauma manifests in classroom settings.
Dive into the neuroscience of trauma. Understand the effects of toxic stress on the brain, including disruptions to the amygdala, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex. Learn how trauma activates the fight-flight-freeze response and how this impacts executive functioning, attention, and behavior.
Learn how trauma affects memory, concentration, and motivation. This module provides instructional strategies that accommodate trauma-impacted learners, including scaffolding, predictability, and choice to support student agency and reduce stress.
Unpack trauma-informed approaches to common behavioral challenges. Instead of asking “What’s wrong with this student?” we ask, “What happened to this student?” Learn how to respond with curiosity, empathy, and structure to build trust and foster emotional safety.
Based on the principles of Trauma-Informed Practices. Develop consistent routines, rituals, and language that foster predictability, connection, and belonging. Explore co-regulation techniques, calming spaces, and classroom norms that reduce anxiety and promote psychological safety.
Explore the risks of traditional discipline methods in trauma-affected students. Learn to implement trauma-informed behavior supports rooted in restorative discipline, reflection, and logical consequences that maintain connection while teaching accountability.
Shift trauma-informed practices beyond the classroom. Learn how to build staff-wide awareness, establish trauma-sensitive policies, and collaborate with school counselors, social workers, and families to create a whole-school culture of care.
Learn how to integrate trauma-informed social-emotional learning that supports emotion regulation, conflict resolution, and positive identity formation. Discover how these competencies also support career readiness and long-term resilience.
Explore restorative frameworks that build community, repair harm, and restore relationships. Learn to facilitate restorative circles, reflective conversations, and community agreements that support healing and accountability.
Experience a detailed walkthrough of a trauma-sensitive school day. From morning check-ins and sensory breaks to instructional tone and end-of-day reflection, see what it looks like to embed trauma-informed principles into your daily routines.
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This training is also offered online—same great content, accessible anywhere.
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