Trauma Informed Instruction

Trauma Informed Instruction
Strategies for working with "Trauma Influenced"students

Isana Academies Implements District-Wide Strategy After Keynote and Training

One of the new processes implemented immediately after Mr. Hall's presentation and training invites teachers and administrators to report instances where they purposely and intentionally built effective relationships with students.

Behavior Modification in Practice

Bad Behavior (Choice) Vs Trauma (Reaction)

Look at a child whom you deem to be exhibiting bad behavior and you may see "Choice." Look at the same child and try to grasp the extent to which he has been traumatized, through no choice of his own and you may experience "Compassion."

In this highly sought-after workshop, we break down the moving parts to complex trauma influence behavior and provide strategies on how to "Identify, Address, Modify, and Redirect," challenging student behavior.

What are the subtle cues taking place in the adjacent video? What are the other students doing while the teacher is handling a highly volatile situation? What signal is the teacher sending when he purposely leads the student out of the classroom? What language is the teacher using and why is the placement of his words critical to the outcome of the interaction?

By way of working in the classrooms, side by side with certified teachers during the school day, for the past 12-years, as well as, conducting Elective Courses of our own, the Institute now provides classroom-ready, teacher-friendly workshops that share valuable insights into the complex world of trauma-influenced behavior.
The workshop can be delivered in 1-hour, 3-hours (half day), 6-hours (full day), or a deep dive of two days.

Since 2007, Mr. Hall, through the Institute for Student Empowerment has conducted one of the most extensive independent research projects in the country measuring the impact of poverty and trauma on students who emanate from economically challenged environments. In this Keynote and workshop, he shares the findings of his 12-year research project outlining best-practices and strategies for working with trauma influenced students.

An Invitation to Speak on Trauma
In India

From "Trauma to Triumph!"
Whether cognitive, affective, or psychomotor, destructive behavior most often can be traced to some form of trauma. Understanding the enormity and debilitating impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACES), is a requisite for identifying, addressing, modifying and redirecting challenging student behavior.

Our training is rooted in the findings of our 12-year independent research project along with proven work from other noted researchers in this field of study. We incorporate real-time classroom experiences gleaned from working side-by-side with certified teachers in various school districts throughout the country (including our current contracted school district, the Los Angeles Unified School District).

We bring the full weight of those findings to your district or building to assist in creating a culture and climate that promotes compassion and love when working with trauma influenced students, parents, teachers, and administrators.

Incorporating nontraditional strategies to reach nontraditional students.

Our children are growing up in a different world than that of the past. The absence of the nuclear family, in many instances, sets the stage for nontraditional norms. Our workshops are designed to raise the awareness among teachers and administrators about challenging student behavior, how to understand the source of the behavioral challenges, and what to do to increase the probability of producing more successful outcomes.

In this workshop, teachers learn how their own behavior can trigger negative exchanges with students and how the culture of the classroom can be impacted by the appearance of "Uncertainty."