Access Recording
Building Support for Compassionate Teaching
This workshop invites participants to explore trauma-informed teaching practices that benefit all students and contribute to a "compassionate" teaching environment. It begins with an overview of trauma, its impact on learning, and trauma-informed teaching principles before addressing strategies teachers can use to support trauma-informed teaching.
Participants should bring one story of how trauma has impacted their teaching as well as a policy, document, or practice used frequently in their own teaching.
Speakers
Michelle Day Da Silva
English Teacher, American Heritage School (Delray Beach, Florida)
Dr. Michelle Day Da Silva (she/her/hers) is passionate about teaching writing and other skills that do (good) work in the world, especially trauma-informed skills that build personal and community resilience. She is currently an 11th- and 12th- grade English teacher at American Heritage School, an independent college preparatory school in Delray Beach, Florida. Before that, she received her Ph.D. in English Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville, where she also taught composition classes for 7 years and served as Assistant Director of Composition for 2 years. Her primary research interests are trauma-informed writing pedagogy and any project that involves working across disciplines to address social justice problems. Outside of work, Michelle finds her balance through training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with her husband, Leo, and sharing some sunshine on the porch with her puppy, Nova.