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Creating Trauma-Informed, Strengths-Based Classrooms

Teacher Strategies for Nurturing Students' Healing, Growth, and Learning

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Creating Trauma-Informed, Strengths-Based Classrooms

By: Tom Brunzell, Jacolyn Norrish
Narrated by: Nikki Thomas
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Summary
 With accessible strategies grounded in trauma-informed education and positive psychology, this audiobook equips teachers to support all students, particularly the most vulnerable. It will help them to build their resilience, increase their motivation and engagement, and fulfil their full learning potential within the classroom.

Trauma-informed, strengths-based classrooms are built upon three core aims: to support children to build their self-regulatory capacities, to build a sense of relatedness and belonging at school, and to integrate wellbeing principles that nurture growth and identify strengths. Taking conventional approaches to trauma one step further, teachers may create a classroom environment which helps students to meet their own needs in a healthy way and progress academically.

Based on the successful Berry Street education strategies pioneered by the authors, this audiobook also includes comprehensive case studies, learning points and opportunities for self-reflection, fully supporting teachers to implement these strategies within the classroom.

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Clear and concise information that can be put into practise in the classroom. Not easy answers but ones that can be implemented.

Should be required reading for teachers

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Inspired to buy this when a PD unit my school required utilised Berry Street material. So many great ideas and strategies grounded in a mindset of genuine care. Much more effective than the often adversarial carrot and stick approach to persuasion in the classroom. So helpful, I’m going to buy the kindle version so I can revisit specific strategies.

An essential tool.

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I have the hard copy of this book! It is outstanding! Tom Brunzell is incredible and Berry Street has helped improve my teaching experience more than any other approach. I don’t want to take anything from this work.

Yet, the audible version is totally unlistenable. The natural nuances and fault in human voices is soothing and allows for easy listening. We are human after all! The lack of natural variance in tone and expression, lack of breath taking, and subtle but unnatural pace makes the whole book listening experience distracting. I hate this! Audible please stop doing this! I use this app to hear real human expression, not an AI imitation of a real person! I cannot listen to this anymore!

AI voice is unlistenable

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This is a brilliant book. The Berry Street model is clearly explained with excellent relevant examples. I wish I had the diagrams to view.

The narration is poor. The reader inadvertently and often changed some of the words which really jarred. I cannot believe it wasn’t picked up in the editing process. Also the timing of the narration in terms of pauses between headings and chapters also doesn’t work. There is a reason why punctuation is used and it’s meant to add pause and emphasis.

The authors’ content however is excellent, really relevant and clearly explained. This is exactly the model I’ll be using in my classroom this year and I feel really well prepared. Thank you!

Excellent resource, poor narration

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Revolutionary! Changed my classroom cultures and how I deal with challenging behaviors. It’s so nice to see students start to see their own strengths

Amazing

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