Grow Beyond Grades

Episode 47 - Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education w/Alex Shevrin Venet

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Alex Shevrin Venet is an educator, author, and professional development facilitator based in Vermont. She teaches community college and graduate teacher education. Previously, she was a teacher and leader at an alternative therapeutic school. She is the co-founder of the Nurturing the Nurturers collective, a healing community for educators. Her first book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education, is a bestseller at W.W. Norton. She is also a long-time ungrader!

Topics include:

  • How Alex’s personal background and professional experiences led to her interest in trauma-informed education
  • How Alex defines trauma in the context of her work in schools
  • How centering four “proactive priorities” can help schools move toward more equitable and trauma-informed systems and decisions
  • How the proactive priorities can be used to make ungrading more equitable, inclusive, and trauma informed
  • How teachers can collectively work to make change at all levels of the system at the same time
  • Why grades can be a barrier to unconditional acceptance

    • Other resources:

    • Alex’s book: Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education
    • Alex’s website: unconditionallearning.org
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