Special Issues, Volume 2: Trauma-Informed Teaching, livre ebook

Teachers and students alike begin their day as humans, and they must all end their day as humans. Experiences of pain, sorrow, loss, fear, disruption, and systemic and institutional oppression are an inevitable presence in schools and classrooms. Editors Elizabeth Dutro and Bre Pacheco have edited this collection of original essays with the belief that trauma-informed teaching, with all of the complex layers that term contains, can and must be harnessed to propel movements toward equity and justice in English language arts classrooms. Woven throughout, authors in this volume share stories from life and literature that aptly show the power and possibility of ELA classrooms for enacting the deepest hopes that fuel the year-to-year, day-to-day, moment-to-moment enactment of humanizing, healing teaching.

07 Introduction: Trauma-Informed Teaching: Toward Responsive, Humanizing Classrooms

ELIZABETH DUTRO AND BRE PACHECO

LENSES FOR ATTENDING TO TRAUMA FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE

13 Thirteen Ways of Looking at Trauma: Possibilities and Considerations for ELA Teachers

ADDISON DUANE AND ALEX SHEVRIN VENET

24 Racial Trauma Literacy for ELA Teachers in US Public Schools 

ADAM J. ALVAREZ, YOLANDA SEALEY-RUIZ, AND ANGEL ACOSTA

34 Disrupting Damage-Centered Approaches to LGBTQ+ Inclusion: Finding Queer Possibilities

BETHY LEONARDI AND SARA STALEY

ATTUNING TO TRAUMA WITH AND FOR EDUCATORS

41 Making Space for Ourselves, Making Space for Each Other: Humanizing Practices in the ELA Classroom and in Teacher Education

BETINA HSIEH

46 “This Hit Me Like a Ton of Bricks”: A Case for Commonplace Journal Writing in Trauma Literature Pedagogy

AMBER MOORE

55 “Yet the embers still burn”: Teaching with Hope in a Broken World

CINDY O’DONNELL-ALLEN AND MOLLY ROBBINS

64 Stick and Stones: Toward Understanding the Trauma of Discursive Violence

KATHLEEN M. COLLINS

71 Knowing Someone: Descriptive Review to Support Children Who Have Experienced Trauma

CARA FURMAN

78 Teaching the Traumatized: Strategies Childhood Sex-Abuse Survivors Use in PreK–12 Literacy Classrooms

ANDIE CUNNINGHAM

PRACTICES TO SUPPORT TRAUMA-RESPONSIVE TEACHING

85 Interactive Read Alouds as Medicine: A Trauma-Informed, Healing-Centered Process for Humanizing Literacy Instruction

ARLÈNE ELIZABETH CASIMIR, HEIDI ALLUM, ERIN SILCOX, RHIANNON KIM, AND ADDISON DUANE

97 Cultivating Awe and Action: A Nature-Based Approach to Grief-Responsive, Trauma-Informed ELA Teaching

BRITTANY R. COLLINS

103 Transforming How We Trust: Actualizing Trauma-Informed, Arts-Based Instruction in ELA Classrooms

BRITTANY M. BREWER AND MAE EARLY

113 Reading Trauma: Uncovering Trauma Paradigms in Young Adult Literature

SARAH J. DONOVAN

125 Teaching Resilience in the English Classroom: A Path Forward

SHERRY PINEAU BROWN

135 A Rupture in Time

SARAH RICHARD

140 “Helping Students to Change Destiny”

KATHLEEN ANN GONZÁLEZ