Trauma-Informed Practices Live Virtual Workshop:

Transform the Classroom to Combat Adverse Childhood Experiences

2-Day Workshop:

Saturdays, January 23 & 30, 2027

7:00 AM – 3:00 PM PT

15 Professional Development Hours

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Students enter our classroom carrying struggles and experiences we could never imagine.

If we want all students to thrive in our classrooms, we must understand how trauma affects learning and utilize Trauma-Informed Practices to help students succeed.

As teachers, we often feel ill-equipped to meet the wide variety of needs our students bring with them to our classrooms every day. Research shows that 46% of students under 17 have experienced a traumatic event and that trauma can alter the development of the brain and affect student learning, behavior, and emotional regulation.

When we infuse Trauma-Informed Practices in our classrooms, we can cultivate a supportive and trusting environment where our students are motivated to learn, demonstrate grit and nurture a resilient mindset. In this workshop, we give you the strategies you need to face these challenges and improve your students’ overall well-being.

Workshop Pricing

Individual Registration

$438

2-15 Participants

$358

Per Person

Groups of 16+ Participants

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Our Trauma-Informed training makes overcoming behavioral challenges and promoting academic success for all students a reality.

This Strobel Education workshop helps educators understand the impact of trauma on student learning, behavior, and emotional regulation. When trauma is not recognized or addressed, it can interfere with a student’s ability to engage, build relationships, and succeed academically.

Participants will learn how to create classroom environments that are safe, supportive, and responsive to the needs of all learners. The training focuses on practical strategies that help educators build trust, strengthen relationships, and support student resilience.

Educators will gain tools to shift their approach to behavior, implement supportive practices, and create learning environments where students feel secure, valued, and ready to learn.

Participants will:

  • Understand how trauma impacts student behavior, emotional regulation, and learning
  • Recognize common signs of trauma and how they may present in the classroom
  • Create safe and supportive classroom environments that promote trust and stability
  • Implement strategies that build strong relationships and support student resilience
  • Apply trauma-informed approaches to classroom management and discipline
  • Use practices that support student well-being and emotional development
  • Develop approaches that improve student engagement and academic success
  • Build confidence in responding to the needs of students impacted by trauma

Trauma-Informed Practices Workshop Schedule

Module 1: Understanding Trauma and Its Impact on the Brain
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.

Module 1: Understanding Trauma and Its Impact on the Brain

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.
Module 2: The Science of Trauma & the Brain
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.

Module 2: The Science of Trauma & the Brain

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.
Module 3: Trauma’s Effect on Learning & Academic Performance
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.

Module 3: Trauma’s Effect on Learning & Academic Performance

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.
Module 4: Trauma-Linked Behaviors & Classroom Responses
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.

Module 4: Trauma-Linked Behaviors & Classroom Responses

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.
Module 5: Creating a Trauma-Informed Classroom
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.

Module 5: Creating a Trauma-Informed Classroom

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.
Module 6: Discipline v Punishment - Rethinking Behavior Support
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.

Module 6: Discipline v Punishment - Rethinking Behavior Support

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.
Module 7: School-wide Trauma-Informed Care
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.

Module 7: School-wide Trauma-Informed Care

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.
Module 8: SEL & Employability Skills for Trauma-Impacted Students
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.

Module 8: SEL & Employability Skills for Trauma-Impacted Students

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.
Module 9: Restorative Practices in the Trauma-Informed School
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.

Module 9: Restorative Practices in the Trauma-Informed School

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.
Module 10: A Day in the Trauma-Informed Classroom
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.

Module 10: A Day in the Trauma-Informed Classroom

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.

Imagine a school where educators...

Feel equipped to meet the needs of all students.

Students come to school with their trauma, and it can be challenging to know what they need to be successful. By understanding how trauma impacts students’ brains, educators can feel empowered to use Trauma-Informed strategies to care for students and help them succeed.

Utilize positive discipline systems

Trauma plays a role in student behavior and how they respond to intervention. Educators can build positive discipline systems based on restorative practices that address and modify behavioral challenges in the classroom.

Provide students with tools to combat the impacts of trauma

Through explicit social-emotional instruction, students can develop stronger relationship skills, self-regulation techniques, and emotional awareness.

Cultivate a safe space for students.

Educators can fully support students by cultivating a classroom that is caring and inclusive. By learning about the impact of trauma, educators can act with compassion and sensitivity, while still holding high expectations for students.

How to begin...

Register

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Learn

Engage with in-depth learning resources and practical teachings during the workshop.

Execute

Apply the knowledge and skills gained from the workshop in your educational setting for effective results.

In this virtual live workshop, you and your staff will learn:

A structured approach for how to implement Trauma-Informed Practices with your students.

We’ll cover how to work with students that have faced trauma and the strategies to help them thrive academically and emotionally in the classroom.

Strategies to cultivate safety and trust, even with your most challenging students.

We’ll teach you how to utilize social-emotional tools to support your students’ well-being and create a climate of compassion and inclusion.

How to implement and maximize the provided Trauma resources

We’ll walk you through our Trauma resources and give you practical ways to implement the provided lessons, activities, and videos in your instruction.

Our Trauma-Informed Workshop and Curriculum is for:

  • Elementary Teachers
  • Secondary Teachers
  • Specialists
  • Administrators
  • Counselors
  • Special Education Teachers
  • Coaches
  • Curriculum Coordinators

Here's what's included in this workshop:

Modeled Mini-Lessons

We model how to teach the mini-lessons and how to differentiate them for elementary and secondary students.

Digital Resource Bundle

Get access to digital anchor charts, teaching guides, activities, and implementation guides.

Professional Development Credit

Meet your PD requirements while learning how Trauma-Informed Practices can promote both academic and personal student success.
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Live Chat Support From Dr. Emma Gibbs

Join the interactive experience and get live feedback and answers to your questions throughout the training.

7 Days of Replay Access

Can’t attend the workshop live? Watch the replay at a later time and still receive all the fabulous resources inside this workshop.

Meet Your Workshop Instructor:

Donya Ball

Meet Donya Ball

Dr. Donya Ball is a Strobel Education consultant and trainer. She is known as a passionate and transformative educator and leader. With her no-nonsense, practical, and solution-driven strategies, she ignites transformation and inspires teachers and school leaders for meaningful change and achievable success. Dr. Ball has served as a teacher, principal, and superintendent and brings extensive experience to her role at Strobel Education.

Here’s what teachers and administrators are saying about this workshop:

This was one of the best trainings in education I have been to. Informative, Resourceful, Energetic, and Positive!

Deb Bachman
Elkhart Community Schools

I love how this workshop touches so many grade levels. Everything presented can be used right away and can be changed/tweaked to meet all grade levels. Kim is genuine and really motivates people. I love the modeling. I also appreciate the resources.

Denise Boring

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Explore Other Ways to Take This Training

This course is also available as a Self-Paced Online Course or an On-Site Training.

Envision a classroom where every student feels safe at school and is motivated to learn, despite the obstacles and challenges life has given them.

Let’s commit to creating a school environment every student deserves – where they are treated with compassion and given the tools they need to succeed in all areas of life.

Frequently Asked Questions

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You will receive a certificate of attendance two weeks following the event. If you did not receive your certificate, please contact [email protected]

While it’s great to attend live to get any questions you may have answered, you will have access to the training for 30 days.

Send your substitution request to [email protected], at least 5 days prior to the event. Please include the name of the individual currently registered, the event, and your substitute’s name and email address.

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