This week on Season 4, Episode 8 of That's SO EDVOLUTIONARY, we talk about how play-based learning environments can help us support students in our classroom with trauma and mental health issues. We often can't know what's going on in all of our students lives, and so creating a trauma-informed classroom environment is best practice to meet the needs of all students.

School can also be a place of trauma, as well as exacerbate mental health challenges in students and teachers alike. Just treating the symptoms will never be as effective as looking at the roots of these issues and how we can prevent some of them in the first place.

Books, articles, resources, etc mentioned in this episode:

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• Cult of Pedagogy: Unpacking Trauma-Informed teaching
• Free to Learn by Peter Gray
• The Self-Driven Child by Ned Johnson and Dr. William Stixrud