She has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Bridgeport for the past three years, teaching courses in ...

Although our communities strive to maintain safety, nearly half of all American children have experienced some form of trauma. Some of these include everyday Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) such ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One in four students in Rockford Public Schools have experienced a traumatic event and two out of three have been exposed to a ...

A few readers of my most recent Substack piece expressed skepticism about my claim that school culture and curriculum have taken a dark turn in recent years and that too many teachers are using their ...

Over 60% of college students have experienced some form of trauma in their lifetime, significantly impacting their academic performance, mental health, and overall well-being. The compounding effects ...

The catastrophic Camp Fire roared through Northern California’s Butte County in 2018, charring the landscape, taking 86 lives and destroying countless homes and habitats in the town of Paradise. The ...

Being “trauma-informed” has become a bit of a buzzword in education these days. A previous series in this blog attempted to provide an introduction to what it might mean for teachers. Today’s post ...

Hard, challenging, difficult. Painful, disorienting, life-altering. There are so many words we reach for in response to the difficult experiences of life. We feel how words fail, how they are all ...

The original version of this essay was published by the TRiiBE. In my 16 years teaching in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), I have lost more students than years I have taught. During my teacher ...

On the first Monday of the school year, I was the outsider — a veteran teacher new to a large, unfamiliar school. I was still learning the layout of the building, much less my students’ names. The ...

Workplace stress and burnout could be worsening. As results roll in from data collected the previous year, researchers are finding: Work is invading personal time: Meetings after 8:00 p.m. are up 16 ...

EdSource · John Fensterwald on what’s at stake for California schools in the 2026 election John Fensterwald on what’s at stake for California schools in the 2026 election April 16, 2026 - EdSource ...