Nowhere to Hide the Elephant in the [Class]room: Confessions of an ignorant and frustrated teacher

Dana Kauffman is an elementary school educator and has written this compelling, insightful article that challenges the status-quo. Please read this, and then go have a chat with your schools!

Nowhere to Hide the Elephant in the [Class]room: Confessions of an ignorant and frustrated teacher

ACE-impacted kids are more common than seasonal allergy sufferers

Childhood trauma is not a “color” issue. It’s not a geography issue. It’s not an income issue. Experts including Surgeon Generals and the U.S. Attorney General have used the specific terms “national crisis’”, and “epidemic”. The CDC says trauma impacts are critical to understand..

CDC scientists found that even in beautiful, suburban San Diego about one-fourth of middle-class, mostly white, college-educated, working folks with medical insurance had THREE or more ACEs!

Schools are not trauma-informed organizations

Just as children can not address their own trauma alone, teachers can not create trauma-informed school organizations all alone.

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE.