Spinning ‘Round the Resource Hub
Once upon a time, a teacher educator wanted to create a treasure chest of accessible resources about trauma and resilience.
She scoured the internet and picked out gems, just like Cinderella had picked the lentils out of ashes.
Now preservice and inservice teachers could gaze more deeply into the magic mirror of child development!
Check out the Resource Hub to see what she found; new additions are being added as she discovers them!
Trauma & Substance Use Disorders
These resources, culled from the hundreds out there, offer an introduction to the dastardly dragon we call the disease of substance use disorder (alcoholism/ addiction), along with how it relates to trauma and toxic stress.
Media that provide an accessible but scientific look at what we know about SUD.
These resources will deepen your understanding about ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences), including living with SUD, and how they impact children.
Insights and guidance for working respectfully with families experiencing SUD and trauma, as well as information to offer families.
Why is resilience sometimes called “Ordinary Magic?”
This collection of media explains what resilience is, the science behind it, and why it’s so important to nurture in all children, especially those who have experience toxic stress.
Learn about the kinds of experiences and developmental characteristics that contribute to resilience, and how to provide them.
We know play is important for lots of reasons.
These resources target how and why it provides the kind of experiences that nurture resilience in children.
Some people love them; some people hate them!
But fairy tales have been around for millennia and are not going to disappear in a puff of smoke!
Explore what storytellers and folklorists mean by the term “fairy tales.”
Read an in-depth overview of how fairy tales are models of “the ordinary magic of resilience.”
Discover resources that do a deep dive into how their magic can be yours.
These resources examine how fairy tales can be used in the classroom as part of a rich emergent and early literacy experience, AND build resilience!
