Resilience practices overcome students’ ACEs in trauma-informed high school, say the data

Severe trauma in children causes toxic stress in kids, which can damage the brain and lead to the child being put in a flight, fight, or fright mode that is physiologically impossible to learn in. Being a trauma-informed school means shifting the disciplinary approaches from blaming the children to understanding the children and helping them build resilience. Schools used supportive relationships, problem solving, and optimism to build resilience in the kids with adverse childhood experiences to moderate the negative impacts of those experiences. The overall results from becoming a trauma-informed school include higher grades, learning to trust others, learning to respect themselves, be responsible for their actions, and learn that others were proud of their academic achievements.