BONUS: How Trauma-Responsive Teaching Transforms Classrooms

In this S4E23 bonus episode, I break down key insights from Arlène Elizabeth Casimir's book Trauma-Responsive Pedagogy: Teaching for Healing and Transformation (co-authored with Courtney Baker). The episode focuses on Casimir's seven-stage framework for weaving trauma-responsive practices into instruction. This episode accompanies Season 4, Episode 23, featuring the full interview with Arlène Elizabeth Casimir.

KEY CONCEPTS:

➡️Distinction between bearing witness and empathy

➡️Healing as a parallel process

➡️Creating restorative and transformative practices in schools

Arlène’s Seven-Stage Framework:

1. Know Thyself

2. Know Thy Content

3. Bearing Witness

4. Feel

5. Grieve

6. Initiate the Archetypes

7. Heal and Transform

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