Classroom180: A Framework for Creating, Sustaining, and Assessing the Trauma-Informed Classroom($58.07Value)

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Classroom180: A Framework for Creating, Sustaining, and Assessing the Trauma-Informed Classroom, by Heather T. Forbes, LCSW is a comprehensive roadmap of what it means to fully create, implement, and sustain a trauma-informed classroom from kindergarten through the twelfth grade. Additionally, Classroom180 includes an assessment tool, the Classroom180 Rubric, that can be used by administrators and others specialists who support teachers on the journey of becoming trauma-informed. Creating an effective and life-giving trauma-informed classroom goes far beyond a few fidgets and a calm corner. This comprehensive book will move you to the leading edge of being trauma-informed. Forbes has developed a system of five domains with a total of twenty-seven clearly defined components to give you an organizing system of where to start and how to continually create and sustain an effective classroom designed to meet all your students, especially those who have been impacted by trauma. What a powerhouse of a book Heather Forbes has written! I began to mark the most important ideas as I read. Before I was halfway through the book, I had marked over 100 outstanding techniques, charts, or phrases. In my two favorite domains, Heather provides a clear theoretical framework as well as practical ways to develop regulation and emotional/social assets. She moves readers from a behavioral consequence model, which further stresses highly stressed children, to a model that identifies when and how to provide the supports that keep children feeling safe and accepted in their schools. I am anticipating my next school meeting, now equipped with fresh ideas. Thank you, Heather Forbes, for this outstanding book. --―Deborah D. Gray, MPA, LICSW author of Promoting Healthy Attachments: Hands-On Techniques to Use with your Clients; Attaching with Love, Hugs, and Play; Nurturing Adoptions; and Attaching in Adoption I started reading Classroom180 and just could not stop. The creation of trauma-informed classrooms is an essential component in supporting the healing, connection, and safety for students to reach their academic and creative potentials. Classroom180 fills a critical gap in the current literature by providing a host of realistic and inexpensive steps that can be taken to create loving classrooms that support ALL students. The student-centered reflective questions and the Classroom180 Rubric will be invaluable for anyone who is ready to take the next step in creating the type of learning environments that our students, families, and communities so desperately need. Classroom180 is a one-stop-shopping experience! --―Amber Reid, MSW As an adult still learning skills to navigate the consequences of experiencing severe early developmental childhood trauma, reading Classroom180 touched a wounded place within me. I wept deeply as I acknowledged a childhood lost and what might have been for me had this book been written sooner. I mourned for the unrealized possibilities that the early interventions, resources, and guidance advocated for in Classroom180 would have done for me. But then I wept for joy as I accepted that my past cannot be changed, yet the future of our children today, who are just like I was, can indeed be changed! Classroom180 is a powerful instrument for all who encounter the consequences of trauma. It holds the key to unlocking the full potential of students impacted by trauma and has the ability to change the entire trajectory of their entire lives! --―April Griffin 2019 college graduate, after graduating from a non-trauma-informed high school in 1985 Heather T. Forbes, LCSW, is the owner of the Beyond Consequences Institute and author of numerous books on the topic of working with children impacted by trauma. Coming from a family of educators, Heather has a passion for helping children in the classroom. Trauma robs children of their curiosity, and Heather’s passion is to help these students return back to their innate love for learning. She consults and lectures extensively with both general and special education schools around the nation and the world. Her signature style is to bridge the gap between academic research and “when the rubber hits the road” classroom situations, giving teachers and school personnel the understanding and tools they need for even the most challenging of students. Heather has worked in schools with trauma-impacted students and knows firsthand how challenging it can be on a daily basis with these students. Much of her insight on understanding trauma, disruptive behaviors, and developmental delays, comes from her own experience of raising two internationally adopted children and mentoring a severely trauma-impacted young adult.