Impacting the Classroom

Engaging with Families While Accounting for Trauma

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How can educators use trauma-informed strategies as they work to engage with the families of their students? In today’s episode of our podcast, we dive deep into the transformation of family engagement in education amidst the challenges posed by the pandemic. Today’s guest is Sean M. Bryant, Director of Professional Development and Adult Learning with the Child Lab at Yale University.

With Sean's expert guidance, we unpack the major shifts in early learning settings caused by the pandemic and how educators should be thinking about different facets of family engagement going forward. Listen to the episode to learn more about what trauma-informed engagement means, how suspensions and expulsions cause trauma within the family, and how to engage more fathers in their children’s education. 

Topics Discussed in This Episode

  • [00:00:51] Introducing Shawn and his background
  • [00:02:40] How family engagement has changed since the pandemic 
  • [00:11:36] New ideas for engaging families
  • [00:14:30] What trauma-informed family engagement really means
  • [00:24:38] Three states of the brain
  • [00:28:02] How movement and memory work together
  • [00:29:28] Discussion of trauma in the book My Grandmother's Hands and how that relates to workplace trauma
  • [00:32:15] How things like expulsions and suspensions affect the family unit and create trauma
  • [00:36:32] How schools should think about discipline
  • [00:41:57] What it looks like for schools to engage fathers
  • [00:48:13] The importance of female guardians acting as gateways instead of gatekeepers
  • [00:50:39] Encouraging more men to enter the early childhood education workforce

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