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