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Home REL Appalachia About REL Appalachia Building Safe, Caring, and Trauma-Sensitive Schools
Building Safe, Caring, and Trauma-Sensitive Schools
This partnership supports staff from Marshall County Schools to create trauma-sensitive classrooms and schools. Specifically, REL Appalachia staff are collaborating with partners from Marshall County Schools and the West Kentucky Educational Cooperative to design and deliver a four-part training series on evidence-based, trauma-sensitive practices and supporting district mental health counselors as they help school-based trauma teams apply the practices introduced in the trainings. These activities will contribute to the short-, medium-, and long-term outcomes described in the partnership logic model below.Current Projects
REL staff are supporting district and school staff in Marshall County, Kentucky to leverage existing evidence-based, trauma-sensitive practices and to help staff implement these practices in their everyday interactions with their students to respond sensitively to student and educator trauma. REL staff are providing the district with a recorded trauma-sensitive training that meets the annual training requirements of Kentucky’s School Safety and Resiliency Act and provides teachers with more concrete trauma-sensitive practices they can implement in their classrooms.
No completed projects at this time.
Product Type: Blog | Publication Date:
August 08, 2024
This blog provides educators with knowledge and strategies in four areas: understanding trauma and its impact on schools, creating a trauma-sensitive school environment and classroom, identifying students who need more intensive trauma-sensitive supports...
Product Type: Infographic | Publication Date:
July 2024
This infographic developed by REL Appalachia and partners provides an overview of a training and coaching series to help educators understand and use evidence-based strategies to support students and educators experiencing trauma. It describes the content...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
March 2024
This is the second session of the four-part Developing Trauma-Sensitive Classrooms series, designed to help educators understand and implement evidence-based practices to support students and educators experiencing trauma. This session focuses on identifying...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
March 2024
This is the third session of the four-part Developing Trauma-Sensitive Classrooms series, designed to help educators understand and implement evidence-based practices to support students and educators experiencing trauma. This session describes practices...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
March 2024
This is the final session of the four-part Developing Trauma-Sensitive Classrooms series, designed to help educators understand and implement evidence-based practices to support students and educators experiencing trauma. This session focused on promoting...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
March 2024
The four-part Developing Trauma-Sensitive Classrooms series was designed to help educators understand and implement evidence-based practices to support students and educators experiencing trauma. This introduction provides an overview of the Regional...
Event Type: Training Material | Event Date:
March 2024
This is the first session of the four-part Developing Trauma-Sensitive Classrooms series, designed to help educators understand and implement evidence-based practices to support students and educators experiencing trauma. This session provides an introduction...
Product Type: Blog | Publication Date:
November 30, 2022
Perhaps you’ve heard about the Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs), and you’ve seen invitations to partner and connect, but you aren’t sure what that might entail. In this blog post, we provide an overview of how REL Appalachia joins forces with...
Event Type: In-person Event | Event Date:
October 20, 2022 - October 21, 2022
Location: Green Bay, Wisconsin
Description: During this session at the National Rural Education Association (NREA) 2022 National Forum to Advance Rural Education, Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Appalachia staff shared resources and strategies to...
Product Type: Blog | Publication Date:
August 03, 2022
As the director of REL Appalachia, I regularly learn about some of the most pressing educational challenges in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia...
Product Type: Blog | Publication Date:
April 04, 2022
Practical resources to support early learners’ transitions to school
REL Appalachia Logic Model (File pending)
