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trauma-informed education
Trauma-informed education refers to educational approaches that recognise the impact trauma can have on learning, behaviour, and relationships. Trauma-informed schools aim to create environments that emphasise safety, supportive relationships, emotional regulation, and predictable routines. Instead of focusing solely on discipline when students struggle, trauma-informed approaches encourage educators to consider whether stress, fear, or previous harm may be affecting a student’s behaviour. By addressing both academic and emotional needs, trauma-informed education seeks to create learning environments where students can feel safe enough to engage and learn.
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How do I protect my child emotionally while pursuing a complaint?
Complaints are stressful for the whole family, and children are perceptive in ways that adults consistently underestimate. A child does not need to overhear a specific conversation to absorb the tension that a complaint process generates — they feel it in…
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Solving problems at school: crisis, restraint, and safety
This page addresses physical restraint, isolation, crisis intervention, and unsafe school conditions in BC schools, and specifically their impact on disabled and neurodivergent children, who are disproportionately subjected to these practices. A child in crisis is a child whose nervous system…
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Solving problems at school: punitive discipline and behaviour systems
This page addresses punitive discipline and behaviour management practices in BC schools, and specifically their impact on disabled and neurodivergent children, who bear a disproportionate share of their harm. When a school applies a behaviour system to a disabled child without…