Trauma Informed Educational Practice: Supporting Students and Teachers During Uncertain Times

For many students, the past year of uncertainty and challenges resulting from the pandemic, social unrest, and incidents of racial injustice has been traumatic. Educators need to recognize and understand the impact that trauma and stressors have on students' mental health and readiness to learn.

In this webinar, Dr. Christina Conolly nationally recognized expert on trauma and Director, Psychological Services, Montgomery County Public Schools, MD, and Dr. Jennifer Engelland-Schultz discuss and identify ways that educators can serve students in uncertain times. Through this webinar, you will learn:

How trauma influences student learning and wellbeing.
Concrete school-wide, class-wide, and individualized strategies to support students’ mental health during remote learning.
Strategies for schools to collaborate with students, families, and communities to support students’ learning and wellbeing.

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Speakers:

Christina Conolly, Psy.D, NCSP, is the Director for Psychological Services with the Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville, MD. Dr. Conolly is responsible for school psychologists and the Bilingual Assessment Team (BAT) in the Division of Psychological Services. In this role, she oversees the Signs of Suicide Prevention Program, Trauma-Informed Schools, and the Behavioral Threat Assessment initiatives. She is the former Director for Crisis Intervention and Safety for the Waukegan Public Schools and was responsible for managing the five missions of emergency management and safety/security for her school district. In this capacity she supervised the suicide and bullying prevention programs, the district mental health response team, physical restraints, isolated timeouts, district and school crisis plan development, incident action planning for large-scale school events, staff training, and consultation with school buildings and community agencies. She is the chairperson of the National Association of School Psychologist’s (NASP) School Safety & Crisis Response Committee and coauthor of the PREPaRE Workshop 1: Crisis Prevention and Preparedness. She also received the NASP Presidential Award in 2017 and 2018 for her work with understanding race and privilege and national crisis responses around the continental United States and Puerto Rico.

Dr. Jennifer Engelland-Schultz is an Assistant Professor in School Psychology at NLU's National College of Education. She earned her Ph.D. in School Psychology from Illinois State University and her M.A. in Teaching and B.S. in Psychology and Sociology from Olivet Nazarene University. Before joining NCE, Jennifer worked as a school psychologist serving diverse students and families in public schools across Illinois. She is especially passionate about providing effective social, emotional, behavioral, and mental health programs and services to students and families within a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS).

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