Relationship, Responsibility, And Regulation: Trauma-Invested Practices For Fostering Resilient Learners

In this stirring follow-up to the award-winning Fostering Resilient Learners, Kristin Van Marter Souers and Pete Hall take you to the next level of trauma-invested practice. To get there, they explain, educators need to build a "nest"—a positive learning environment shaped by three new Rs of education: relationship, responsibility, and regulation.

Drawing from their extensive experience working with schools, students, and families throughout the US, the authors:

• Explain how to create a culture of safety in which everyone feels valued, important, and capable of learning.
• Describe the four areas of need—emotional, relational, physical, and control—that drive student behaviours and show how to meet these needs with interventions framed around the new three Rs.
• Illustrate trauma-invested practices in action through real scenarios that identify students' unmet needs, examine the situation from five stakeholder perspectives, and suggest interventions to support students and their families.
• Offer opportunities to challenge your beliefs and develop deeper and different ways of thinking about your role in your students' lives.

Educators have a unique opportunity to influence students' learning, attitudes, and futures. This book will invigorate your practice and equip you to empower those you serve—whatever their personal histories.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1. Building the Nest

• A Culture of Safety
• Systems of Meaning
• Need Versus Behavior

Part 2. The New Three Rs

• Relationship
• Responsibility
• Regulation

Conclusion: Not Perfect, and … Enough

Bibliography

About the Authors